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BY DAVID LANK PERKINS. 



Stories, Anecdotes, and Biographical Sketches 
of Prominent Manchester Men. 



PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. 



1B%. 
GEORGE F. WILLEY, PUBLISHER. 

MANCHESTER, N. H. 






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CONTENTS. 



SUBJECTS. 



Manchester Up To Date, by D. 


L. 


Perkins 


8 


Manchester Historical Publication 


s 31 


Wiliey's Book of Nutfield . 


3« 


^Vil!ey's Senii-Centennial Book ol 




Manchester . . . . 


36 


Rockingham West 


40 


Hon. William C.Clarke . 


41 


Horses and Other Domestic Ani- 




mals 


42 


Hon. Charles H. Bartlett . 


43 


Hon. Ed,u;ar J. Knowlton . 


44 


The Founders of Londonderry . 


45 


Manchester Board of Trade 


46 


Chas. C. Hayes . . . . 


48 


Herbert W. Eastman . 


49 


Hon. James A. Weston 


50 


Hon. Henry W. Blair 


54 


Slavery . . . . . 


56 


Hon. Moody Currier . 


57 


Hon. Oliver E. Branch 


59 


First Schoolhouse 


60 


Edwin T. Baldwin 


60 


Boiled Eggs 


61 


Cnarles W. Temiile 


62 


Capt. Thomas Patterson 


62 


Alonzo Elliott . 


63 


Robert D. Gay . 


64 


Henry De Wolfe Carveile, M. D. 


^'5 


Hon. Frederick Smyth 


67 


William D. Buck, M. D. . 


68 


Hon. John Hosley 


70 


William M. Parsons, M. D. 


70 


Rev. Thomas A. Dorion 


72 


Col. Charles E. Balch 


73 


Emile H. Tardivel 


74 


Manchester Centennial I^xercises 


74 


Hon. Person C. Cheney 


75 


Hon. James F. Briggs 


• 76 


Dr. C. M. Dodge 


77 


The Longest Courtship 


77 


First B.iptist Church, Manchester 


7« 


Rev. William C. McAUester, D. 


D. 79 


William H. Elliott 


80 


The Spectacular . 


80 


Hon. .\lpheus Gay 


81 



Making Too Much Money . . 81 

Col. Arthur E. Clarke . . 82 

Hon. John C. Ray ... 84 
What it Cost to Ordain Rev. Wm. 

Morrison, 1783 ... 84 

ILLUSTRATIONS. 

David L. Perkins . . . 11 

Manchester, View of in 1846 . 12 

Manchester, View of in 1896 . 13 

Concord Common . . . 13 

Union Block in 1846 ... 14 

Principal Business Block in 1846 14 

Principal Business Block in 1896 15 

Kennard . . . . . 15 

Smyth's Block . . . . 15 

Elm Street . . . . 15 

New City Hotel . . . . 15 

Granite Street Bridge in 1846 . 16 

A Locomotive in 1846 . . 16 

Merrimack River in 1846 . 16 

McGregor Bridge, Manchester . 1 7 

l'",lm Street, Looking South . 18 

City Hall 18 

Pickering Block . . . 18 
Elm Street, Manchester, Looking 

North ..... 19 

Kennard . . . . 19 
Anioskeag Falls, Manchester, 

above the bridge . . 20 

Merrimack River, above the Falls 20 

Cygnet Boat Club House . . 20 

Merrimack River, below the Falls 21 

High Water Scene . . . 21 

City Library . . . . 22 

Police Station, Manchester . . 23 

Elm Street, Winter Scene . 24 
Next Day after the Big Storm, 

March 12, 1888 ... 24 

Lowell Street, Manchester, in 1885 25 

Home of Gen. John Stark . . 26 

Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace 27 

Rev. William McDonald . 27 

Board of Trade Officers, ii.96 . 29 

W. E. Drew .... 29 

N. J. Whalen .... 29 

Eugene Quirin .... 29 



H. Chandler 

Frank Preston 

Albert L. Clough 

E. C. Wescott . 

H. W. Eastman . 

Frank L. Way 

C. M. Edgerly , 

O. D. Knox 

W. G. Africa . 

Gen. Charles Bartlett . 

Clerks at Manchester Postoffice 

1896 .... 
Carriers at Manchester Postoffice 

1896 .... 

Wiliey's Historic Chamber . 
Employees at Manchester Post 

office, 1896 
Gen. John Stark 
Hon. W. C. Clarke . 
City Hall, Manchester 
Hon. Charles H. Bartlett . 
Hon. Edgar Knowlton 
Charles C. Hayes 
Herbert W. Eastman . 
Government Building 
Weston Residence 
Hon. John Hosley 
Hon. Henry W. Blair 
Hon. Moody Currier 
Edwin T. Baldwin 
Charles W. Temple 
Alonzo Elliott . 
R. D. Gay .... 
Henry DeWolfe Carveile, M. I). 
Sheriff Healy and Manchester 

Deputies 
Hon. Frederick Smyth 
Dr. Wm. M. Parsons and Family 
Rev. Thomas A. Dorion 
I'jnile H. Tardivel 
Hon. P. C. Cheney 
Clarence M. Dodge, NL 1). 
First Baptist Church . 
Rev. W. C. McAUester, 1). 1), 
William H. Elliott 
Col. .\rthur E. Clarke's Residence 
Hon. .•Mplieus Gay 
John C. Ray 



New Hampshire ••• 
•f Town Histories 

. . . FOR SALE BY . . . 

GEORGE F. WILLEY, MANCHESTER, N. H. 



Wii.i.ey's Semi-Centennial Book of Manchestek. 

Wii. lev's Book of Nlitfieu). 

Manchester Up To Date. 

Roc KINO II AM West. 

Potter's History of Manchester. 

Clarke's History of Manchester. 

Parker's History of Londonderry. 

Histokn of Bedford, Publlshed in 1851. 

Cochra.ne's History of Antrim. 

Moore's History of Candia. 

Secomb's History of Amherst. 

History of Old Dunstable. 

Londonderry Celebration, 1869. 

Fogg's Gazetteer of New Hampshire. 

Successful New Hampshire Men. 

Chase's History of Chester. 



MANCHESTER UP TO DATE. 



BY DAVID LANE PERKINS. 



IT lias 'been said of us, almost hv way of reproach, 
that we have no ancient castles in America ; 
no stately ruins to remind us of media.'val times. 
But on the whole our trans- 
atlantic friends must admit 
that we have got along 
(juite successfully without 
t hem, and let us hope that the 
time may never come when 
liaronial castles shall dot 
the horizon of our fair land. 
As for ruins, our people arc 
too busily employed in tlitir 
various vocations in build- 
ing up the new even to 
think of them, much less to 
lament their absence from 
our virgin landscape. Our 
pers])eetive is altogether 
too bright and alluring for 
th:'.t. Some hundreds of 
years hence our successors 
may cultivate the scars and 
wrinkles that will serve a 
purpose in this line, but at 
present we are full of life, 
full of resources, full of hope 

and vouth. But it is not the present purpose to 
dwell upon ruins, or castles even in the air, but 
merely to note down a few milestones which in 
the experience of one short lifclinn- have brought 
us to our present magnificent estate. 

There are scores among us who can recall the 




DAVID I.. PERKINS 



hardly more than a worthless sandbank ; a prolific 
fishing resort ; and with nothing more suggestive 
of thrift or of value in its character and surround- 
ings than an ol)Scure little 
spinning mill at Amoskeag. 
Later on a manufacturing 
village grew up on this side 
of the river ; and as the 
cotton industry throve, the 
village blossomed into the 
beautiful and far-famed cit\- 
of today. My father came 
hither ,in June, 1848 (see 
page 33, Manchester edi- 
tion, Book of Nutfield), as 
the first male instructor in 
the public schools of the 
new Manchester, in the new 
high school building on 
Lowell street at the corner 
of Chestnut, then almost 
literally in the woods. 
There were no railroads 
here ; no telegraph wires. 
Even gas as an illuminating 
agent was practically un- 
' known. The telephone, elec- 

tric lights, street motor cars, and the modern fire 
alarm service are of comparatively recent date, 
and the steam fire engine only preceded them a 
vcrv little. There were no street pavements here, 
and the sidewalks were limited to the village needs, 
a villasre of about three thousand five hundred 



time when the present site of Manchester was souls. I doubt if there was a private bath tub, 




a domestic heatiiifj furnace, a coal stove, or an 
elevator in the town. 

There was little to attract attention south of 
Merrimack street or north of Lowell, and east of 
L'uion street there were no buildings at all until 
the suburbs were reached. The now elegant 
northeast section, then of uneven surface, covered 
with little patches of rude granite boulders, scrub 
oaks and pines, not arable, and hardly fit for 
grazing, was yet used for a pasture, and was en- 
closed with a rough stone wall. The time came 
when the authorities placed a neat wooden rail 




iS5oor 1851, Daniel Webster delivered an address 
from a raised platform at a fair of the New Hamp- 
shire Agricultural Society, held in this immediate 
vicinity. He was the " observed of all observers" 
in a procession that marched up Kim street, and 
from his 0})en barouche, with bared head, he 
bowed, like a god that he was, to the ladies on 
either side of the street, wiio waved their handker- 
chiefs. 

A deep glen, or ravine, extended northeasterly 
from the Valley Cemetery, and a brook that 
rippled down between the heavily shaded banks, 




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fence around Concord common, then the only 
park of any pretensions, and it seemed almost lil<,e' 
a case of metropolitan extravagance. The vicinity 
of Birch and Washington streets, now known 
as Barbary Coast, was wet and marshy, and 
abounded in alder bushes, where the rabbit and 
the partridge lingered as if regretful of the com- 
ing chancre. The territory south of Hanover 
street and east of Union was covered by a heavy 
pine forest as far out as Hallsville, and through 
the woods to the south, a tract of cleared land, 
comprising some twenty acres or more, was 
familiarly known as " the Ryefield." As late as 



.thence through the cemetery valley, is well remem- 
bered by thousands of our fellow citizens. This 
shaded dell served us boys as a not too remote Ar- 
cadia, where we often repaired of a school holi- 
day, with wooden tomahawks in imitation of the 
Indians. It was onl\- at long intervals that we got 
as far out as the shores of Lake Massabesic, for we 
had no other means of transportation than those 
afforded by nature. At a point near West Brook 
street, where Judge David Cross now lives, the Old 
Falls road, so called, curved around, first westerly 
and then to the north, until the Amoskeag bridge 
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a small weather-stained house stood guard for 
many years; and half way around the curve, at the 
foot of the hill, a small, ancient, black wooden 
schoolhouse was a familiar object. The pasture, 
the outlying orchard, and the adjacent graveyard 
have now disappeared forever. Cows no longer 
feed placidlv along the hillside ; the school children 
of the olden da3's are gathered to their fathers, or 
scattered far and near; while the bones of the dead 




Nutfield), and manv a valued collection has been 
exhumed therefrom. There was a deep ravine 
just north of Pennacook street, crossing Elm from 
the (lid fair grountl, with its riotous little trout 
brook now rapidly disappearing from human view. 
When Smyth's block was built at the corner of 
Elm and Water streets, as late as 1853, it was 
thought by some of the wise heads of that day to 
be a crazy enterprise, because it was so far removed 
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have been ruthlesslv removed. This ancient bury- 
ing ground was in the immediate vicinitv of, and 
perhaps included, the present site of the Manches- 
ter Locomotive Works. The father of General 
Stark was buried here. The sand bluff where the 
Governor Smyth mansion now stands, and the one 
south of it across West Salmon street, then under 
the shade of willows and elms, were rich with the 
deposit of Indian arrowheads and other aboriginal 
curios (see " Indians of the Merrimack," Book of 



even Rock Rimmon bids fair to become a huge 
setting like a gem of nature in the midst of a 
thriving, busy settlement. 

I have a distinct recollection of a deep ravine 
south of Granite street and west of Elm, where 
nature had formed a charming amphitheatre. A 
platform was erected in this temple of nature 
where temperance lecturers (see "A Drunkard's 
Funeral," Manchester edition. Book of Nutfield) 
and Fourth of July orators held forth to audiences 




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seated upon benches arranged one ai)ovc another 
on the hillside, and all under the 2;i-ateful shade 
of primitive trees. Alony' in the forties a man 
from over the river was found drowned in a 
shallow pool in this ravine, with a jug of rum by 
his side. In view of this tragic event some of the 
temperance people conceived the idea of giving 
the town an object lesson, and it took the form of 
"a drunkard's funeral." A procession was formed, 
and marching through Elm street, a halt was made 
before several places where liquors were dispensed, 




common in my boyhood, out of an artificial pond 
that existed there for fire ])urposes, sui)plied by 
" Mile brook," so called. This brook had its rise 
on (Jak hill, and thence from Hanover square by 
a culvert, it supplied another artificial pond on 
Merrimack common, now known as Monument 
square, and still another small reservoir on Con- 
cord common, at a jjoinl where the fountain now 
stands. These small bodies of water afforded the 
school children of that day excellent facilities for 
skating, and, alas! at times, even for drowning ; and 




GRANITE-STREtT IIRIDGE IN 1 S46. 



and the "mourners" groaned several times in 
unison. 

Political feeling, then as now, was exciting 
and absorbing. July 4, 1844, a presidential year, 
the two parties held rival meetings in Manchester; 
the Whigs in this same ravine, and the Democrats 
among the pines in the neighborhood of Tremont 
square. Some fifteen thousand strangers were in 
town, and no end of the militia. Charles Francis 
Adams of Massachusetts addressed the Whigs, 
and George Barstow, the historian, was the 
Democratic orator. 

I caught many a fine brook trout on Hanover 



for the latter purpose several adults availed them- 
selves of the little pond on Concord common. In 
recent vears these ponds have been filled in with 
earth and completely grassed over, as they were no 
longer needed for fire purposes, and with an 
increasing density of population the impure waters 
were thought to be a menace to the health of 
those who lived in their vicinity. I recall with 
pleasure the sunken barrel on the south bank 
of Hanover common, from which the thrifty 
housewife, the ruddy maid, or perchance the man 
of the house, with pail in hand, drew a supply of 
sparkling spring water for family use. The chil- 




drcMi were wont to slake their thirst at this same 
perennial fountain, and occasionally one of them 
fell heaclloni;: into the barrel, a fate that once befel 
the writer of these notes. From this bounteous 
spring the public fountain at the corner of our 
city hall is supplied with the pure juice of the 
rock, and in the heat of a summer's day it is an 
untold blessing to our weary, toiling, care-worn 
masses. Yet Mayor Abbot was unmercifully 
ridiculed for introducing this boon, though if he 
had done nothing more, this alone would serve as 




their fancy, and he was thought to be a slothful 
farmer who coukl not supply his table therefrom 
with green peas and cucumbers as earlv as the 
fourth of July. We chased rabbits among the 
scrub oaks, pines, and granite boulders north of 
Concord street and east of Uni<jn, for in this 
whole section there were no houses west of Janes- 
ville. The ground where the Governor Straw 
mansion stands, north of Harrison street and east 
of Elm, was occupied by a little black, weather- 
beaten, single-storied farmhouse and barn, and it 




MCGREGOrJbRIDGE, MANCHESTER. 



a fit monument to his memory. At the southeast 
corner of Merrimack common there was a low, 
boggy place, where for many years an irregular 
clump of ungainly trees served as an eyesore and 
reproach ; but like the Mile brook that meandered 
across Elm street and lost itself in the deej) glen 
south of Granite street, they have long since dis- 
a])iicared from view. 

In that liav the neighbors around Concord 
common were wont to parcel out among them- 
selves small garden spots on the upper or east sec- 
tion, where they raised such vegetables as suited 



was then away out in the country to us boys. 
Here we spent many delightful hours hunting 
liens' nests on the haymow, and chasing buttcr- 
llies over the sun-clad fields, with a school fellow 
whose father occupied the premises. Sweet Hag 
was found here on the margin of a little brook. 
There were picturcs(iue relics of a decaying 
wooden mill of small pretensions on the river 
road, this side of the General John Stark place, 
and another near the present intersection of Lake 
avenue and Massabesic street, where leeches were 
found and where we sometimes went in bathing. 




On the west side, from the eddy at Amoskeag 
to Granite street south, a long mile, there were 
hardly more than a half dozen houses, including 
the old Butterfield farmhouse, a district that is 
now densely populated. And who can forget the 
ancient pound and the jiest house on Bridge street 
just north of our Derryfield park ? Many an old 
inhabitant would think he had strayed beyond his 
bailiwick if found within the limits of " the new 
discovery." A few years ago this territory was a 
dense jungle under the shadows of Amoskeag hill ; 




cause of brevity. Prolixitv is easy enough in a 
case like this, and with the best endeavor a selec- 
tion of the fittest is not always easy of attainment. 
The character of the pupils who then attended 
our public schools, as I remember them, was 
vastly different from those of today, being largely 
composed in the higher grades of young men and 
young women, at least they seemed so to me. In 
those days both urban and country teachers were 
often compelled to fight for the right of way, and 
sooner or later the test "was reasonablv sure to 




ELM STREET, MANCHESTER. — LOOKING SOUTH. 



now it is a flourishing settlement in the northeast 
section. In the early times Thanksgiving shoot- 
ing matches were hcltl near a little tavern stand at 
the intersection of Bridge and Russell streets, in 
Janesvilie. 

Very many interesting changes in the topog- 
raphy of our city might be noted here, but time 
and space forbid. In preparing a paper like this 
where the material is so abundant, it is always diffi- 
cult to know just what to include, and when done 
it is ever a source of regret that something more 
had not been added. Yet somcthiufr is due to the 



come as to whether a new teacher could fight as 
well as teach, and frequently the fighting pre- 
ceded the teaching. In the large audience room 
of the Lowell-street school, where nearly two 
hundred pupils were frequently assembled, an iron 
bo.x stove, four feet long, was the only heater, and 
when well packed with chunks and well fired, it 
was thought to be a pretty safe reliance, though in 
zero weather the occupants of the back seats near 
the windows may now be pardoned if they enter- 
tained a different opinion; but they had the best 
that the market then afforded. In fact, it is only 




within rcct-nt years that modern iicatinij appliances 
iiave het'n inlroducecl into our public schools, and 
water was onlv to be had by goint^ after it among 
the neighbors. When I attended the Spring-street 
grammar school there were two large box stoves, 
one on either side, east and west, the boys occu- 
pying the east half and the girls the west, divided 
by a broad middle aisle, and there were times when 
the privilege of standing around one of these 
stoves was esteemed an especial favor. It was the 
custom, in tlic earlv days, for the larger boys to 




until wc lia\e been com|)cllcd to work hard all day 
to earn one hundred pennies. 

Corner lots then sold for eight cents per foot 
cannot be had now for ten dollars a foot, so 
changed are the conditions under which we live. 
If our boys were to deport themselves like the 
merry boys of the forties, they would soon find 
themselves in the reform school during their 
minority; but there was no reform school then. 
The adults, too, were often careless of their P's 
and O's, for the primitive little jail at Amherst 





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ELM STUEET, MANCHESTER. — LOOKING NORTH. 



take turns in the care of the schoolrooms, and it 
was no idle pastime to sweep out and build the 
fires on a cold winter morning. The dainty pupils 
of todav would think they had fallen upon hard 
lines if rcijuircd to exchange their luxurious sur- 
roundings for the meagre school facilities of their 
parents. And yet, though education is now ren- 
dered comparatiyely easy and pleasant, it can 
hardly be said that Daniel VVebsLcrs are more 
plentiful than in the frugal early days of the 
Republic, huieed, it is as true now as ever, that 
we fail to realize the real worth of a gift dollar 



was hardly capable of holding twenty guests. It 
is within my recollection when a lot of machine- 
shop bovs held a policeman by main force while a 
confederate went thrt)ugh his pockets for a key 
to the local bastile, with which a comrade was 
liberated ; and it was considered a fairly good joke 
on the policeman, for there were less than a half 
dozen of these noble guardians to preserve the 
jieace in a turbulent community. The machine- 
shop bovs, some four or Wvc hundred of them, 
were a rough-and-ready crowil, and they came near 
ruling the town. A trouble signal from one of 




" the gang" was sure to be answered with stalwart 
vigor, and our police heroes well knew the part of 
discretion. 

The only place in the village, as late as 1841, 
lor the accommodation of inihiic gatherings, was 
a dingy little affair christened with the high-sound- 
ing name of "Washington Hall." The old build- 
ing is still preserved, and is now located on Am- 
herst street, half way west from Chestnut. It 
stands in from the street and is reached by an 
alleyway. A private school was kept there at one 




The vicinity of Concord common was tlien the 
aristocratic section. Judge Samuel D. Hell lived 
at the corner of Amherst and Chestnut streets, 
and his comfortable home of that day has been 
converted into a corner grocery. Dr. Thomas 
Brown, very prominent in his day, lived nearly 
opposite Vine street, on Amherst, and his fine 
residence, standing in from the street, has long 
since become a cheap tenement house. Hon. 
Mace Moulton, once a member of Congress, and 
said to be the father of sheriffs in New Hampshire 




AMOSKEAG FALLS, MANCHESTER. 



time, and it was my fortune or misfortune to be 
one of the attendants. On coming to this side 
from Amoskeag, the First Baptist church wor- 
shiijped in this hall from 1838 to 1840, when their 
new brick church was completed at the northwest 
corner of Manchester and Chestnut streets. Many 
hot election contests have taken place in this old 
building. Concord common was then a crude 
reseryation, and the stately trees of today have 
all attained their present grandeur within my time. 
The only tree of primitive growth now left is the 
old gnarly oak in the southwest corner of the park. 



(see Willey's Semi-Centennial Book of Manches- 
ter, page 26), lived on Amherst, south side, 
between Elm and Vine. Hon. George W. Morri- 
son lived for a short time in the brick house at the 
intersection of Vine and Amherst streets, and it 
has since blossomed into a thriving groggery. 
Warren L. Lane, the third mayor of Manchester, 
lived and died on Pine street at the head of the 
common, and for a time Hon. Moody Currier, 
e.x-governor of the state, was his next door neigh- 
bor. Hiram Brown, our first mayor, lived only a 
short distance away on the present site of the 




Hanover -Street Congregational Church, and 
Phinehas Adams, agent of the Stark corporation, 
occupied the site of the Catliolic orphanage. 
Kx-Mayor E. W. Harrington and Hon. Nathan 
l'ari<er were close by on Hanover street. The 
latter lived where the government building now 
stands. Alonzo Smith, one of our early mayors, 
lived at the corner of Concord and Union, and 
his liouse was a frontier post. He was the pro- 
prietor, or one of the proprietors, of a lumber 
yard located on the present site of St. Paul's 




took its tortuous course througii this section, and 
frogs were numerous there in the spring time, 
and the busy muskrat was found there in his 
season. But all is now changed. The low places 
are made even, and tidy streets and pleasant 
homes give no clew to the former low estate. 

I have a vivid recollection of a Fast Day 
game of old-time round ball, the parent of our 
national game, that was played on Concord com- 
mon opposite the central fire station, in 1848, 
between the Ransom Guards of Vermont and 





MERRI.MACK RIVER, liELOW AMOSKEAG FALLS, MANCHESTER. HIGH WATER SCENE. 



Methodist church, and the lot north of it, the 
present location of the First Baptist church, was 
vacant property, and enclosed with a high board 
fence. 1 find, by consulting the early directories, 
that F. B. Eaton, Herman Foster, Walter I'rench, 
J. T. P. Hunt, A. C. Wallace, and the Rev. C. W. 
Wallace, lived in this section of the town. A 
double, single-storied, and white-painted wooden 
schoolhouse stood in the place of the Unitarian 
church of today, corner of Concord and Beech. 
From this point southeasterly as far as Towlesville, 
the (jround was low and marshv. The Mile brook 



some Manchester recruits for the Mexican War. 
The levity of the plavers seemed strangely out of 
place to me, for my juvenile conception of a 
soldier's lot ended in his being shot to death for 
the glory of his countr\- and the |iride of his pos- 
teritv, and indeed the gallant Col. Ransom met 
that fate on the plains of Mexico, and my concep- 
tion of the iitness of things was thus justified. 

In 1 84 1 the Union building, so called, now 
occupied and owneil bv the Manchester National 
bank (sec Banks and Banking, Willey's Book of 
Nutfield), was the first building erected on the 




west side of Elm street, and in tiiis vear there 
were few buildings on the street. Ex-Mayor Har- 
rington told me upon one occasion that he walked 
from Manchester to Hooksett to see Hon. R. H. 
Aycr, the builder, to secure a refusal of this new 
building in which to carry on his business, and it 
may be needless to add that he was entirely suc- 
cessful. The Union Democrat was published here 
at one time, and the Mirror was domiciled across 
the way in Riddle's block. The Concord railroad 




8 a. in., via Bow and Hooksett, William (i. Hoyt, 
driver. There were also stage lines conncctinsr 
Manchester with Lowell, Portsmouth, Gilmanton, 
E.xeter, and New Ipswich. 

On the night of March 26, 1845, Jonas L. 
Parker, the town's collector of ta.xes, who had 
several thousand dollars on his person, was bru- 
tally murdered in the pine forest that extended 
south and east from the corner of Union and 
Hanover streets. The exact spot is believed to be 




CITY LIDRARY, MANCHESTER. 



was opened to Manchester from the south 
July 4, 1842. 

As late as 1844 my father kept a bookstore 
and small^^circulating library in Towne's old block, 
near Amherst street, next door south of Z. E. 
Campbell's drug store, and its number was 48 on 
the old plan of streets. From this fact some idea 
may be had of the changes that have taken place 
in Manchester during the past fifty years. A 
stage coach started fur Concord each week dav at 



at the rear of Dr. Hiram Hill's lot on Manchester 
street, now known as No. 327. This was a mur- 
der of national celebrity, and strange to relate, the 
murderer has never been revealed, the old adage 
to the contrary notwithstanding. Well do 1 re- 
member the spot where lay the mangled and 
giiastlv remains of the murdered man. 1 was 
then but seven years old, anil 1 went to tiie ])lace 
of the murder on the following morning in com- 
pany with my father, and with many a horror- 




stricken citizen, entering the woods b\^ a cart road 
that crossed diagonally through the forest to the 
little hamlet beyond. (Sec Chapter of Tragedies, 
Book of Nutfield.) This whole territory is now 
densely populated. 1 recall something of the in- 
tense excitement that prevailed in the community, 
and for several months the good housewife was 
sure to repeat the daily admonition to her men- 
folk, that there was danger in remaining away 
from home after dark. In the next year, at the 




guments had failed. The famous Stark Guards, a 
star military company of that day, also held their 
annual field sports here, and i have heard the late 
Hon. George W. Morrison relate that as captain 
he was expected to accommodate the standing man 
in a wrestling match. He was a skilled wrestler 
of that day, and no douhl he was al)le to fill the 
bill to the satisfaction of his loyal and royal com- 
pany. 

And now for a few moments, let us change 




POLICE Sl'ATION, MANCHESTER. 



June session of the legislature, Manchester was 
incorporated as a city, and on the first day of 
August the charter was accepted by a popular 
vote of 485 to I 34. 

The pine grove north and west of the corner 
where the city hall now stands was a favorite re- 
sort of the machine-shop boys for wrestling l)Outs, 
and for indulgence in other athletic sports, and if 
the trutii were told many of their pastimes were 
anything but gentle, and I dare say that many a 
dispute was settled there with fists, when other ar- 



our point of view, from which it will appear, that 
had the progenitors of our eitv been gifted with a 
prevision, they could hardly have improved upon 
their undertaking.s. 'I'here are always men enough 
in every community who are experts at jiulling 
down, but these men were gifted with a genius for 
building up, and they builded better than they 
knew. 

The Amoskeag Company was incorporated in 
1831, and was capitalized at $1,600,000. Its plant 
included the old spinning mill of 1809, the Bell 




mill, and the Island mill at Amoskeag. The 
Island mill was destroyed in 1S40, and I witnessed 
the burning of the Bell mill, March 28, 1848. In 
the old mill of 1809 yarns were spun from hand- 
picked cotton, for there were no machine pickers 
then, and these skeins of yarn to some extent 
took the [ilace of currency in local business trans- 
actions, for our currency was in its infancy, and it 
was a feeble infant at that. The enterprise, how- 
ever, proved unsuccessful, and in 1825 it passed 




earlv times the yarn that was spun troin the hand- 
picked cotton was given out among the surround- 
ing towns, to be woven on hand looms at from 
two to seven cents a yard, according to quality, and 
thus were the maids and matrons of that day en- 
abled to turn a not over nimble penny for them- 
selves. Subsequently tickings were woven by ma- 
chinery at the Island mill, and perhaps to some 
extent in the Bell mill, and they soon acquned 
a wide reputation under the trade mark of the 




ELM SIRKI I, MANCHKSltK. NHXT DAY AKTER THE liUJ SIORM, MARCH 13, 1888. 



into more experienced hands. In 1826 the Bell 
mill was added to the original plant, and also the 
Island mill on the island south of the covered 
bridge. A picturesque foot-bridge connected the 
island with the mainland at a point near the Bell 
mill on the site of the present P. C. Cheney paper 
mill, and a commodious boarding-house on the 
island survived until after the beginning of the 
civil war. Our fellow townsman, Ephraim K. 
Rowell, was the first landlord to occupy this 
island boarding-house, seventy years ago. In 



" A. C. A. Tickings," of which we hear even now. 
Soon after being incorporated, the new Amoskeag 
company caused a careful survey to be made with 
a view to future operations, from which it 
appearetl that the east bank of the river afforded 
the better facilities for the engineering operations 
necessary for the laying out of canals, and in a 
general way for the upbuilding of a manufacturing 
centre at this point. The next move was quietly 
to buy up all the available adjacent land on either 
side of the river, and secure to themselves control 




of the water power as far north as was needful to 
prevent competition, and in this they were measur- 
ably successful. It was a part of the plan to lease 
water privileges to other manufacturing companies 
for whom the Amoskeag was to erect mills and 
hoarding-houses. As early as 1835 lots were 
placed on the market, but it was not until 1837 
that active operations were begun. The first 
cotton mill on this side of the Merrimack river 
was erected for the Stark corporation in 1838, the 




hostelry thereon, which has l)Ut recently given 
place to the Pembroke block of modern times. 
Merrimack common was then covered with pines, 
birches, and alders. The first public land sale 
was held Oct. 24, 1838. The first house, a one- 
story cottage, erected on land thus purchased, was 
in 1839, at the corner of Chestnut and Concord 
streets, and it gave place only recently to the Peo- 
ple's Tabernacle church. 

I think it was in 1839 that the first fire engine 




LOWELL STREET, MANCHESTER, IN 1 885. 



year of my birth, and in this same year the Amos- 
keag company laid out the site of the future city 
of Manchester, the main thoroughfare being given 
the name of Elm street, which it has ever since 
retained. A cemetery, public parks, church and 
school lots, wide streets, and other reservations, 
were set apart for public uses, and a large lot 
covered with pitch pine trees at the corner of Elm 
and Merrimack streets was dedicated to the use of 
a tavern stand, which was availed of by the late ven- 
erable William Shcphard, who erected a famous 



was purciiased for the use of the community, a 
famous hand-tub known as " Merrimack No. i." 
In 1840 the Amoskeag Company erected their 
machine shop on the lower canal, where a vast 
amount of machinery was built for new mills here 
and elsewhere, and subsequcntlv the Amoskeag 
steam fire engines were manufactured here, that 
have found their way into every part of tiie civil- 
ized world, originally invented by our fellow-citi- 
zen, Nehemiah S. Bean. 

In 1 84 1 the Amoskeag Company also built two 




large mills known as Nos. i and 2. The east side, 
therefore, now assumed an air of importance 
which was very distasteful to the old inhabitants 
at the center of the town. They were apprehen- 
sive that the pretentions of the upstart new com- 
ers in the "new village" would result in swelling 
the tax rate. The feeling was at high tide when 
we came to Manchester, but henceforth, so rapid 
was the growth of the " new village" that the old 
inhabitants were soon swallowed up in the on- 




new town house with a loan not to exceed $20,- 
000, and it was accordingly built in the summer of 
that year at an expense of about $17,000. It was 
surmounted by a ])retentious cupola, an elaborate 
spread eagle, a town clock, and a fine toned bell 
of twent3'-eight hundred pounds. They had a 
healthy habit in those days of keeping wnthin 
their appropriations. But the ill feeling between 
the old and the new still lingered, and finally cul- 
minated in an incipient riot at one of the early 






HOME OK GEN. JOHN STARK, MANCHESTER. 



ward marcli, though for several years they sturdily 
resisted every effort looking to a development of 
the future city. In this same year the old settlers 
in the rural districts, and at the Center, were exas- 
perated at the action of the selectmen in calling a 
town meeting at Washington hall, thus ignoring 
the ancient place of meeting. They were also 
bitterly opposed to an article in the warrant with 
reference to a new town house to be located in the 
" new village " at juiblic expense. But the new 
villagers prevailed, and it was voted to build the 



town meetings held in the new town hall. I think 
this must have been as early as 1843. The fac- 
tions were threshins: over the old straw when one 
Copp, an athlete 01 that day, undertook to en- 
force his arguments with his fists, and the fight be- 
came general. Judge Bell, the factotum of that 
day, and afterwards our chief justice, read the riot 
act. A deputy sheriff undertook to suppress the 
belligerent Copp, whereupon the boys set upon 
the sheriff and chased him as far as the railroad 
Station, where he crawled under a platform to save 





himself from threatened castigation. But in time 
the old settlers became reconciled to the new 
order of things, and peace again reigned in the 
Warsaw of the Merrimack. This town house 
stood on the site of our present city hall, and on 
the twelfth day of August, 1844, I was a witness 




\'oungsville, then as now, was out Hanover street, 
and near to Lake Massabesic. GofTe's Falls, at the 
outlet of Cohas brook, was a place of some 
renown in its early history as a fishing resort, 
and I believe it contained a saw and grist mill. 
It is now a thriving manufacturing village four 
miles to the south of our city hall. Bakersville is 
at the south end of Elm street. On the west 
bank of the Merrimack, Amoskeag was a prosper- 
ous village until her industries were diverted to 
the east side, and Piscatnc|uog to the south was a 
pretentious place, where lumbering and flat-boat 
building for the navigation of the Merrimack was 
carried on, and where West India goods and gro- 
ceries, wet and dry, had long been dispensed to 
the profit of dealers, and to the delectation of 
rivermen and other sturdy yeomen. These two 
ancient boroughs were annexed to Manchester in 
1S53, one from Goffstown. and the other from 
Bedford. Amoskeasr had lony been a celebrated 




RF.V. GYRUS W. WALLACE. 
(See Willey's Semi-Cenlennial l!ook of M.incliester, p-lge 186.) 

to its destruction by lire. At that time it was 
thought to be a marvel of architectural l)eauty. 

The hamlets outlying the then " new village" 
were Janesville, in the immediate vicinity of the 
McCrillis carriage shop; Towlesville, southerly 
from Janesville, where a slaughter-house was the 
attraction for us boys; Ilallsville was on the way fishing place, first for the Indians and then for the 
out to Manchester Center, where the old meeting- white men who succeeded them. Many a thrill- 
house was located, and where the annual town- ing tale of this neighborhood has come down to 
meetings had been held "from a time whereof the us through Indian legendry, and many an amusing 
memory of man runneth not to the contrary." story is related of the prowess of our immediate 
And here at the Center was the old postofiice. predecessors in their "hustle" for the juicy salmon 



REV. WILLIAM MCDONALD. 
(See VVilley** Setni.Centennial I^ook of Maiichssicr. page t^h.) 





and the elusive lamprey eel. For centuries Amos- 
keasr Falls was a favorite resort for Indians. Here 
they celebrated their tribal rites, practiced their 
wild orj^ies, and negotiated treaties with their sav- 
age neighbors. A bridle path was blazed through 
the primeval forest to this point prior to 1649, for 
the renowned Eliot, that the gospel of peace 
might be preached to a new world of heathen. 
But it is bv no means certain that Eliot ever 
preached here, though it is so stated with consid- 
erable positiveness in Potter's History. Alas, the 
poor Indian ! 

The island south of the bridge, reached by the 
little foot-bridge, was a favorite resort for the 
boys of my time, and the old boarding-house, in- 
habited by bats and swept by every blast, was in- 
deed our island castle. Frequently at low water 
we crossed over to our deserted castle upon the 
rocks in the river bed, jumping from one to an- 
other. At one time Capt.Jas. M. A'arnum had an 
extensive bleachery here. The great ledge on the 
northeast border, extending out towards the high 
bridge, has long excited the curiosity of visitors on 
account of its deep and curious potholes. They 
have the appearance of having been chiseled out 
by the aborigines with infinite care and patience 
centuries ago, in which to secrete their booty cap- 
tured in fierce warfare with other sanguinary 
tribes. That, at least, was our conjecture. Cotton 
Mather described them as follows in a letter pub- 
lished in the " Philosophical Transactions" in Lon- 
don : "There is a huge rock in the midst of the 
stream, on the top of which are a great number of 
pits, made exactly round, like barrels or hogsheads 
of different capacities, some so large as to hold sev- 
eral tons. The natives know nothing of the time 
they were made; but the neighboring Indians have 
been wont to hide their provisions in them, in the 
wars with the Maquas; God had cut them out for 
that purpose for them. They seem plainly to be 
artificial." It is more probable, however, that 
these deep and curious places in the solid rock 
were formed by revolving pebbles kept in motion 
by a constantly recurring flood of waters. The 
savants, I believe, have agreed upon this as the 
better opinion. I recall one place in particular 
where a pothole had been worn through a shelving 
rock so that the Hood of waters could have been 



seen below, but for the fact that a huge boulder 
had become suspended therein by some convul- 
sion of nature. Some of these basins have the 
capacity of a hundred gallons or more, and their 
sides are as smooth and regular as though they 
had been wrought by the cunning hand of a 
skilled artificer. Youths and maidens of a sum- 
mer's eve were wont to dance upon the island 
green. Ah ! how pleasant are these memories ! 
The little foot-bridge went out more than thirty 
years ago. 

And now in looking back, I linger with 
pleasurable emotions as I recall at springtime, the 
sound of many waters beating upon the rocks 
at Amoskeag, even afar off. It is a curious fact 
that when listening to the familiar sound of the 
school bell, especially if I happen to be in a suburb 
or remote from my school district, I feel the old 
longing to bestir myself, lest I be reckoned with 
as a truant. And the evening curfew, sounded 
from our city hall, transports me with a feeling 
of restfulness to the days of my boyhood. 

There have been few disturbances in Man- 
chester that by any stretch of imagination can be 
termed riotous, and I recall but two that have cast 
a blur on the fair fame of our beautiful "Queen 
City" of the Merrimack. One was the anti-Cath- 
olic riot of many years ago, and the other was the 
firemen's riot of 1859. Labor disturbances have 
been exceedingly rare, and I recall but two in the 
whole history of our municipality. Indeed, Man- 
chester has been wonderfully blessed in this par- 
ticular, for the policy of our great manufacturing 
establishments has generallv been conservative, 
humane, and just. Here the lamented Horace 
Greeley, (see pages 98, )66, 240, 262, Derry edition, 
Book of Nutfield) opened his campaign for the 
presidencv almost in sight of his birthplace, and 
manv a time have I crossed the old McGregor 
bridge of which he spoke so feelingly on that 
memorable occasion. It was carried away by a 
flood in 1851. 

With hundreds of others I have thus wit- 
nessed the astonishing growth of a sand bank, 
which at first hardly any one could afford to own, 
into a flourishing city. Then if was known as 
Harrytown (perhaps it was in memory of the 
mythical Old Harry). Then Derryfield, because, it is 




BOARD OF TRADE OFFICERS, 1896. 
{See Willey*s Semi-Cenlennial Book of Manchester, page 124.) 





humorously said, the Deny fanners pastured their 
cows here. Then it was a fishing resort near 
which a few hundred pounds of cotton yarn were 
spun per week or month. Now it is a beautiful 
city of nearly sixty thousand people, the wealth- 
iest community in the state, with a valuation in 
1895 of $28,861,122, and one of the leading man- 
ufacturing cities in this great country, where cloth 
enough is woven every week to make a belt 
around the world. The little hamlets scattered 
here and there in the early forties, have been 
united in one compact, harmonious, and prosper- 
ous whole, with a diversity of industries that bids 
fair at no distant day to yield a population of a 
hundred thousand souls. Years ago the Amos- 
keag was the largest manufacturing company 
in the world that i)Ut its products on the market 
in a finished state, and today it has no rival. 
There are in Manchester at the present time 
about 14,000 operatives, male and female. There 
are nearly twenty thousand looms and 600,000 
spindles in our thirty-one mammoth mills, capi- 
talized at $8,600,000, with an average weekly pay- 
roll of about $92,000. Our broad paved streets 
(see " Roads and Streets," Willey's Semi-Centen- 



nial Book of Manchester) are lighted, and our 
commodious street cars are propelled by chained 
lightning which we call electricity. We have 
seven beautiful public parks. Thousands of stately 
blocks and elegant private residences adorn our 
fair city. Our people are supplied with an abun- 
dance of pure water in every house. Our public 
school system ranks among the best in the coun- 
try. Our fire service is without a rival. Our 
militia is organized upon lines of patriotic duty, 
and for miles along the river banks there is heard 
the hum of industry, to testify that thousands of 
toilers earn honest bread in the sweat of their 
brows, and by the skill of their hands. There are 
churches and hospitals for all. There are homes 
founded in charity for the indigent and infirm. 
There are Christian institutions that retlect the 
love of God in the duty of man to man, and no 
one may go astray through want of kindly. Chris- 
tian admonition, and of helpful, loving hands. 
Such is the Manchester of today. What will it be 
even fifty years hence, if our successors keep pace 
with the progress that has led us to this, our first 
semi-centennial conclave ? 




C1.ERK.S AT MANCHESTER POSTOFFICE. 



1S96. 



MANCHESTER HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS. 



D I' RING the past four years the publisher 
of this volume has devoted his time to 
the compilation and publication of a series of 
historical works pertaining to Manchester and 
towns closely identified with the early settlements 
of what is now Manchester. 

"Willey's Book of Nutfield," Derry and Lon- 
donderry edition, was published the early part of 
this year. It is a history of that part of New 
Hampshire comprised within the limits of the old 
township of Londonderry, from its settlement in 
I 7 19 to 1896; biographical, genealogical, political, 
and anecdotal ; illustrated with nearlv one thousand 
half-tone engravings. 

As to the reason for calling the work the 
" Book of Nutfield," it occurred to the publisher 
that there is a very definite liistorical unity and a 
strong community of interest in that portion of 
New Hampshire which was first settled in 17:9 
and given the name of Nutfield. Although that 
territory has been divided into several towns, yet 
ill all these towns are many descendants of the 
early settlers, and while the original political unity 
has been broken, the common social, l)usiness, and 
religious interests still remain ; so that in spite of 
the introduction of many new elements and the 
infusion of much new blood, the Londonderry, 
Derry, Windham, Manchester, and other towns of 
1896 arc the essential outgrowth of the Nutfield 
of 1 7 19. For a work which attempts to trace 
back to their common origin all these varied 
interests, while at the same time awarding to the 
present its just share of recognition, the publisher 
could think of nt) better name than the " Book of 
Nutfield." ♦ 

When the author first began the work, he had 
no idea of the vast amount of interesting and 
hitherto unpublished material which was to be 



found in innumerable places. And so the book 
assumed greater proportions than he anticipated. 
In the search for and the preparation of this 
historical material, he was so fortunate as to 
secure the invaluable aid of the Rev. Jesse G. 
McMurphy, who is the acknowledged authority 
on all matters of Londonderry history. Besides 
the co-operation of Mr. McMurphy, the assistance 
of many other writers and critics was secured, 
among them being Rev. E. G. Parsons, Judge 
W. W^ Poor, Hon. John G. Crawford, Mr. H. W. 
Herrick, and many others. Every line was sub- 
jected to the most careful scrutiny. Thorough- 
ness and haste are rarely found together, and the 
preparation of a work of this character is a slow 
process, if it is to be free from errors and abso- 
lutely reliable. 

The book is one of the finest illustrated works 
that has ever been published in New Hampshire, 
and ranks with the best that have ever been 
o^otten out in New England. 

The work is printed from new tvpe. on fine 
coated paper, and contains 370 pages 9.^ x 12 in. 

The publisher secured the valuable data rela- 
tive to the history of Nutfield collected by the 
late Robert C. Mack of Londonderry, which is the 
result of more than twenty-five years of laborious 
and painstaking researches by that industrious 
historian. 

The "Book of Nutfield" covers wide fields 
hitherto uncultivated, throwing a strong light on 
New England life from the earliest davs. It 
embraces a period of 177 years — 1719 to 1S96 — 
and is an authentic history of one of the most 
important and at the same time the most unique 
and interesting of all the colonial settlements. 

The author's aim has been to write, as far as 
possible, from the original documents, in which 





the collections of Mr. Mack and others were found 
to be very rich. 

State archives, county, town and court rec- 
ords, and tombstones in all parts of the United 
States have been critically and thoroughly exam- 
ined. Old letters, diaries, journals, account books, 
etc., have been scanned and the facts they con- 
tained brought to light. 

One of the most valuable features of the work 
is the series of section maps, drawn by Rev. Mr. 
McMurphy, and showing the location of the farms 
of all the original settlers. He has spent years of 
arduous labor in the preparation of the maps, and 
has drawn them with exceeding care. For any 
one who would know the history of Nutfield they 
are simply indispensable. This feature alone cost 
the publisher several thousand dollars. 

This is the first general history of Nutfield to 
be published, and will probably be the last during 
the lifetime of those now living. Everv inhabi- 
tant of Nutfield — Derry, Londonderrv, Wind- 
ham, Manchester, and other towns — should secure 
a copy for himself and for each of his children, so 



that when they become heads of families they 
may have the ancestral record. 

This "Book of Nutfield" should be in every 
city and town library throughout New England 
and wherever New Englanders have settled. The 
historian will find it a reference book replete with 
rare information, while the general reader cannot 
fail to be deeply interested in its graphic pictures 
of colonial life. The numerous grenealogical 
sketches have special value for those who are seek- 
ing credentials entitling them to membership in 
the various colonial organizations. Thousands of 
surnames appear in the index. 

A twenty-four page prospectus of the work 
will be mailed post free to any address, by the 
publisher, George F. Willey, Manchester, N. H. 
Send for a prospectus. It costs you nothing. 

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LION. LEONARD A. MORRISON, author 
A -1 of history of Windham and half a score of 
other histories, says : 

George F. Wili.ev, Ks(|., — I have received your " Book of 
Nutfield." The printing is well done on excellent paper. You 
have made a very readable book, with a great variety of sub- 
jects of the ])ast and jiresent. I noticed with great pleasure 
what is one of your most valuable contributions, the inscriptions 
from the tombstones in the old cemetery at East Derry. where 
were buried so many of the Pilgrim Fathers of Londonderry. 
The inscriptions from the burial ])laces are of great value. 
These records are a mine of information and will gladden the 
hearts of all students, and they are man)', of Londonderry's 
liistory. 

V'ou have linked Londonderry, New Hampshire, with 
Londonderry, Ireland, where many of its first settlers had suc- 
cessfully contended with the forces of King James: 
" * * * With pike and ball, 
Under Derry 's leaguered wall," 
in its famous siege of 1688 -'89. 

Tlie illustrations you furnish of those foreign towns are 
beautiful and very natural. The illustrations of the Book of 
Nutfield are prodigal in their profusion. They are valuable to 
those of the [iresent, they will be of immense value when the 
far-away future becomes the jsresent and the present recedes 
into the dim past. 

Some of the maps of Revolutionary battlefields, particu- 
larly that of Bunker Hill, where so many of the gallant sons of 
Old Nutfield gallantly contended, can hardly be excelled. The 
maps by Rev. J. G. McMurphy are very interesting, finely 
drawn, and very valuable. 

AUew me to congratulate you on possessing so much jiluck, 
persistence, and push as to enable you to present to the i)eoi)le 
of what was Nutfield, to their clansmen wherever scattered, 
and to the literature of New Hampshire so well printed, so 
finely illustrated, and so interesting a book. 

(Signed) Leonard A. Morrison. 

Windham, N. H. 



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ON. HENRY W. BLAIR, e.x-United States 
Senator, says: 



We have nothing in the line of local or even state history 
which at all approaches it in attractiveness of general a])pear- 
ance, nor in comprehensive as well as minute historic value. 
Mr. Willey's plan seems to be to seek out everything and to 
preserve what is best worth preserving in the |)ast, while |)re- 
senting a complete photogra])h of the present, so that the 
whole will become an acknowledged authority for future times. 

1 think that the " Book of Nutfield " will be one of |)er- 
manent value and of j.'.cat interest to thousands in all parts of 
the country. 

(Signed) Henry W. Bi.air, 

Washington, 1). C. 
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pROF. (i. VV. BINGHAM, principal of Pink- 
* erton Academy, Derry, says: 

Mv Dear Mr. Willev, — Your "Hook of Nutfield " will 

be a most welcome addition to the illustrated literature of New 

Ham])shire. It bears abundant testimony to the good taste. 

energy and enterprise of which your school days at Pinkerton 

Academy gave ])romise. 

Sincerely yours, 

(Signed) G. W. Binoham. 
Derry, N. H. 



CHARLES BARTLETT, editor of Derry 
News, says: 

The " Book of Nutfield " has interested me deeply. I 
consider the series of maps one of the most valuable of its 
many valuable features. These maps of the old ranges into 
which the Nutfield country was originally laid out, showing as 
they do the names of every settler and his location, make the 
work of priceless value for all who have the least interest in old 
Londonderry. 

(Signed) Charles Barti.ett. 

Derry, N. H. 



COL. W. S. PILLSBURY, shoe manufacturer 
at Derry Depot, says : 

George F. Willev, Publisher of " Willey"s Book of Nut- 
field "' : Dear Sir, — I have examined with great interest and 
jileasure your "Book of Nutfield, " and desire to congratulate 
you upon the sjjlendid success you have achieved. 'I'he work 
in every way far sur])asses my exjjectations and is a credit to 
New Hampshire, and to the enterprising publisher. 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) \V. S. Pillsburv. 
Londoiuk'rr\, N. 1 1. 



HON. HENRY GOODWIN, a native of 
Londonderry, proprietor of the Crawford 
House, B()stt)n, sa^^s: 

George F. Willkv, i)ublisher of the " History of Nutfield ": 
Dear Sir, — Permit nie to ex|)reKS my appreciation of your suc- 
cessful effort in conipiling a work which reflects great credit on 
those whose combined labors have given this book to the public. 
Historic matter of deep and intense interest to thousands has 
been rescued from oblivion by your persistent service, and this 
with the generations yet to come will be your grateful debtors, 
as they shall read here statements of fact, and events of thrill- 
ing interest, for which elsewhere they might vainly search. I 
ordered two co|)ies when the task was begun, and have just or- 
dered two more, which is one evidence of my appreciation. 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) Henkv Goodwin. 

Baston, Mass. 




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EACON HENRY S. WHEELER, post- 
office address, Windham, N. H., says: 



I lia\ e received " W'illey's Kook of Nutfiekl," and find it 
rci)lete with attractive features. I believe there is much 
material in it never before published, notably the visit of 
Lafayette to Uerry and the great war meeting in Londonderry, 
in 1 86 1. Then the maps of the several ranges as laid out by 
the early settlers, the descriptions of the old cemeteries, and the 
inscriptions on the headstones, and sketches of distinguished 
civil and military sons of Nutfiekl, and' other historical matter, 
combine to make the book both interesting and instructive. 

The late Gov. B. F. Prescott told me he had procured and 
])resented to the state of New Hampshire, to Dartmouth 
College, to Phillips Exeter Academy, and to the New Hamp- 
shire Historical Society, in all about two hundred portraits of 
distinguished men in the various walks of life. He also told me 
that, although he had made diligent search, he had failed to 
find, much to his regret, a picture of (ren. George Reid. 

The persistent efforts of Mr. Willey have been rewarded by 
the finding of a picture of the general, which, with an interesting 
sketch, is found in his book. This achievement is worthy of 
special commendation. It is to be hoped that a portrait of 
Gen. Reid may yet adorn the walls of the Capitol at Concord. 

I consider Mr. Willey's book a gem. I like it especially 
because it doesn't contain merely the cut and dried facts of 
history, but is full of the most interesting matter. Lm sure 
everybody who is or who has been associated in any way with 
Derry or Londonderry will want the book. 

(Signed) Henry S. Wheeler. 

Derry. N. H. 



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ON. JOHN W. NO YES, president of Derry 
National Bank since 1S64, says: 



'• Willey's Book of Nutfield" has been perused by me with 
much satisfaction. I think it deserves high commendation as a 
valuable historical work and for its fine illustrations, its excellent 
[jrint, and its beautiful binding. The wliole book is so satisfac- 
tory that after purchasing one copy I decided to order three 
more. This work should l)e placed in the jiublic libraries of 
our state, that the young people may learn more of the history 
of Old Nutfield, which has ever been consjiicuous for good 
citizenship. (Signed) John W. Noyes. 

Chester, N. H. 



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ARVEY PERLEY HOOD of Derry, milk 
contractor, says : 



" Willey's Book of Nutfield "' is both interesting and instruc- 
tive. Its mechanical makeup is in excellent taste. The 
history of the town, the early life of the people, the narration of 
their hardships, the obstacles they had to overcome, their noble 
spirit of sacrifice in establishing schools and churches, are 
portrayed in a pleasing and attractive manner. It will be 




of peculiar interest to the future inhabitants of the town, and 
well deserves a place in all our homes. After ordering one copy 
I ordered six more. (Signed) H. P. Hood. 

Derry, N. H. 



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ON. ALEXIS PROCTOR, treasurer Frank- 
lin Savings Bank, Franklin Falls, says : 



George F. Willey, Esq.: Dear Sir, — The bound copy 
of the "Book of Nutfield" sent me by express is at hand. 
I assure you that I am more than satisfied with it. I desire to 
congratulate you on being able to finish the work so successfully. 
To do so you must have spared neither time, patience, nor 
money. The book sent me is substantially and neatly bound 
and of the right dimensions for convenience either for family or 
library use. The illustrations are excellent and the great 
amount of historical and general information contained is not 
only very valuable, but entertaining as well. I consider the 
maps alone worth more than the price of the book. Please 
send me another copy. Inclosed find check for $10.00. 
Respectfully yours, 

Franklin Falls, N. H. (Signed) A. Proctor. 



STORIES OF THE PRESS.— Following are 
a few of the thousands of press notices on 
" Willey's Book of Nutfield " : 

It has placed its author, George F. Willey, in the front rank 
of New England historians. — The Mountaineer. 

The work has attracted widespread attention and has met 
a flattering reception everywhere. — Waterville Mail. 

If there is any Scotch-Irish blood in your veins, }ou will 
be interested in " Willey's Book of Nutfield." — Pemaquid 
Messenger. 

"Willey's Book of Nutfield " is the most fascinating histori- 
cal work that has appeared for years. — Hardwick Gazette. 

Mr. Willey has earned the gratitude of all lovers of history 
for collecting and putting into permanent and handsome form so 
much valuable material that would otherwise be lost to the 
world. — Manchester Mirror. 

Embellished with a wealth of fine engravings and well 
printed on the finest paper, the book presents in readable and 
attractive form a vast amount of material relating to the early 

and later history of Old Nutfield All in all, the 

work is a stupendous undertaking, covering as it does such 
a wide field, with so many varied interests, historical, political, 
industrial, religious, educational, and social. — Manchester 
Union. 

"Willey's Book of Nutfield"' scoies an instantaneous 
success. It is an able, dignified, and most beautifiil work, 




containin:; an abundance of" the most valuable historiral, 
genealogical, and biographical matter, well written and well 
edited. — .\'e\v York Journalist. 

It is a pleasure to speak well of such a carefull)- prejjared. 
well written work as " Willey's Book of Nutfield." — Boston 

Journal. 

.Ml the readers of The News will be pleased to learn that 
Oeorge F. \\'illey"s " Book of Nutfield," which has been issued 
in installments during the jiast year, is finally completed with the 




public a uni(jue, interesting, comprehensive, and valuable his- 
torical, biographical, and genealogical work. He certainly 
deserves the heartiest congratulations u[)on the success whi( h 
has attended his efforts. 

In turning over these hundreds of handsome pages, 
embellished with so many beautiful illustrations, one is struck 
with the enormous amount of labor that must have been 
necessary to gather all this material and [jut it into readable 
shape, for the field covered by the work is an e.xtensive one. 
As the successive installments of the book have ajjpeared, the 




WILLEYS HISTORIC CHAMBER. 



publication of Part 12, that has just a|)peared. Nearly every 
one in this community has watched with great interest the 
career of the young author and i)ul)lisher. and when his 
ambitious i)lan was first annoimced of ]iresenting to the public 
the great wealth of hitherto unpublished historical material 
relating to this section of the country, many were the predictions 
of failure. The task was indeed a most formidable one, and 
doubtless Mr. W'illey himself did not foresee all the difficulties 
and obstacles that would arise. But his energy and ability have 
enabled him to surmount them all. and he has ^iven to the 



readers of The News have been kept informed of the contents 
of each, but it is only by seeing the twelve jiarts together that 
one realizes what the whole work really contains. No one can 
help being interested and fascinated by it, even though there 
may be differences of opinion as to its minor features. Its 
value, its interest, and its attractiveness no one can dispute. 
-Absolute perfection is not to be found in any work, and even if 
the angel (iabriel should come down from heaven and write a 
book, there would be plenty of critics to point out errors in it. 
^ Perrv .News. 





WILLEV'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL BOOK make his services of inestimable value. Another 

OF MANCHESTER and Manchester writer whose assistance he fortunately secured is 

edition of the Book of Nutticld is now ready for the veteran artist and literary man, Mr. H. W. 

distribution. It contains historic sketches of that Herrick. He is an authority on all matters relat- 

part of New Hampshire comprised within the ing to the life and services of General Stark, and 

limits of the old Tyng Township, Nutfield, Der- he also knows more about the artistic life of Man- 

ryfield, and Manchester, from the earliest settle- Chester than any other living man. Another au- 

ments to 1896, by George Franklin Willey. Bio- thority, particularly on the history and languages 

graphical, genealogical, political, and anecdotal, of the Indians, as well as on antiquarian subjects 



Illustrated with 
nearly one 
thousand en- 
gravings. This 
V o 1 u m e, like 
the Derry edi- 
tion of the 
Book of Nut- 
fieid, is printed 
from new type 
on fine coated 
paper and con- 
tains about five 
hundred pages 
gh X 12 inches. 
The publisher 
sought, and ob- 
tained, the aid 
of experts in 
particular lines 
of historical re- 
search. On the 
staff of writers 
which he has 
been so fortu- 
nate as to se- 
cure, are men 
who are rec- 
ognized as au- 




E^IPI.OYEES AT THE MANCHESTER POSTOFFICE. 



ly, IS 
Hon. John G. 
Crawford. He 
is probably bet- 
ter qualified to 
write the Indian 
history of Man- 
ch ester than 
anv other man. 
I n the same 
general line of 
research are 
the labors of 
Rev. Jesse G. 
M c M u r p h y. 
Without doubt 
Mr.McMurphy 
has a wider 
fund of infor- 
mation c o n- 
cerning the his- 
tory of New 
Hampshire in 
colonial times 
than any other 
living historian. 
Coming down 
to the history 



of Manchester 

thorities in their respective lines. It is safe to say as a city, and dealing purely with civic affairs, the 
that without their aid a really satisfactory and re- compiler secured the invaluable services of Col. 
liable history of Manchester could not be pro- George C. Gilmore, Mr. Eaton, and historian 
duced. Prominent among them is Mr. F. B. Eaton, George W. Browne, to assist in this department of 
who rendered valuable aid in the compilation of the general subject. Their fitness for the task 
Potter's history forty years ago. His acquaint- will be conceded by all. as their acquaintance with 
ance with the history of Manchester, particularly all the details of the city's governmental history 
with its financial institutions, is minute and ac- is surpassed by none. Mr. H. W. Eastman, sec- 
curate. His long service as librarian of the city retary of the board of trade, assisted in various 
library and his long residence in Manchester, lines. His ability is everywhere recognized. 




J'6^-<^r>-i-r^^e^^^ 




Hon. E. J. Knowlton, who is also numbered 
amono; the corps of assistants, has an intimate 
ac(]uaintance with the Manchester of today and 
the pubhsher had the advantage of his encyclo- 
pedic and accurate knowledge in many lines. 
Mr. E. J. Burnham, Col. G. C. Gilmore, Dr. D. S. 
Adams, Gen. C. H. Bartlett, Mr. S. C. Gould, the 
clergy of Manchester and many other specialists 
are among the assistants. 

Send to the publisher, Manchester, N. H., for 
prospectus. 



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ON. WILLIAM C. 
Manchester, says: 



CLARKE, mayor of 



From an examination of the prospectus of Mr. Willey's 
" Semi-Centennial History of Manchester," the magnitude of the 
work is apparent, covering as it does a scope far greater than 
that of any previous history. It is evidently not in the nature 
of a cheap "souvenir," such as is generally gotten out within a 
few months on the occasion of anniversaries, but a comprehen- 
sive, accurate, and most entertaining history, doing full justice 
to Manchester, past and present. With all the resources and 
facilities at Mr. Willey's command, and with the enormous 
amount of historical material in his possession, it is within his 
])Ower to give the city one of the best histories that was ever 
written in New Hampshire, and it is gratifying to learn that his 
efforts are receiving just recognition at the hands of the public. 
(.Signed) Wm. C Clarke, Mayor. 



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EV. C. D. HILLS, D. D., pastor of St. 
Paul's M. E. church, Manchester, says: 

George F. Wii.i.ev, Publisher of " Willey's Semi-Centen- 
nial Book of Manchester" : Dear Sir, — My surprise at your 
undertaking has been growing to admiration for your industrious 
persistency. .\s those who begm to have a clear idea of your 
broad pur|)ose watch the progress of your remarkable enterprise, 
they can but rejoice at your inevitable success in giving the 
public such a minute, varied, complete, illustrated, deeply in- 
teresting and iiistrjctive history of Manchester. I bespeak for 
your comprehensive and invaluable work the hearty commenda- 
tion and gratitude of all appreciative citizens. 

Vour work depicts with great power and pathos the persis- 
tent attempts of the settlers to found a colony, the fearful hard- 
ships they endured, and the difficulties they encountered before 
all the institutions of a civilized community were firmly estab 
lished. So vividly are the scenes portrayed that the reader 
imagines himself for a time to be living in the early part of the 
eighteenth century and sharing its hopes and fears. 
Yours sincerely, 

(Signed) C. D. Hills. 

Manchester, N. H. 




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ON. E. J. KNOWLTON, ex-mayor 
postmaster of Manchester, says: 



and 



Geor(;f, F. Willev:— You have rendered an invaluable 
service to thousands by the publication of your " Semi-Centen- 
nial Book of Manchester.'' In my opinion it is by far the finest 
work of the kind ever gotten out in New Hampshire. 

(Signed) E. J. Knowlton. 

Manchester, N. H. 



REV. T. EATON CLAPP. D. D., pastor of 
Hanover-street Congregational church, Man- 
chester, says : 

" Willey's Semi-Centennial Book of Manchester '" is certainly 
interesting. The reader moves from page to page, each abound- 
ing in amiable personal sketches, interrupted and aided by illus- 
trations, and is charmed as by few of our most entertaining 
novels. The great Dr. Jowett of Balliol College has recently 
declared that more and more will education be pursued through 
the text-book of biography. The biographical material in this 
book will supply a text-book of history for generations to come. 
It will be increasingly valuable to later general historians and a 
treasure in every historical library. 

Green's History of the English People marks a revolution 
in historical subject matter. The life of the people, as distinct 
from the occupations of courts, royalty, battles, and diplomacy, 
will increasingly command attention. Pojiular life, clean and 
wholesome, illustrating the true possibilities in conduct and at- 
tainment in ordinary life, is always more heljjful reading than 
that of life lived by men and women in exalted and inaccessible 
station. 

In these pages the best samples of New Hampshire's sons 
and daughters appear before us, and with them the institutions 
by which they were trained, in which they worked for private 
and public well being, and which were also the products of their 
head, heart, and hands. They form charming annals, attrac- 
tively written. 

Mr. Willey's book is as valuable as it is interesting and will 
form a most attractive history for our New Hampshire homes. 

(Signed) T. Eaton Ci.app. 

Manchester, X. H. 



MANCHESTER NEWSPAPERS and others 
express their opinions on " Willey's Semi- 
Centennial Book of Manchester." 

"Willey's Semi-Centennial Book of Manchester " is the 
unique, but not inappropriate title of the most elaborate and 
aniliitious town history that has ever been attempted in New 
Hamiishire, for it at once recalls the author and suggests the 
broad field which the work covers, for ancient Nutfield com- 
prised what is now the city of Manchester, besides Derry, Lon- 
donderry, Windham and other towns as they exist in 1896, and 
its history covers a most eventful and fruitful period, from the 
earliest settlements to ihe present. 





To conceive of such a work would seem to be the province 
of a man of mature years and abundant leisure, and to attempt to 
carry it out would seem to argue the possession of " money to 
burn," but the author of the brilliant work, which is now 
attracting the admiring attention of the dwellers in antient 
Nutfield, as it appears from the publication ofifice, rich in 
illustration, story, anecdote, and the varied result of painstaking 
research, sumptuously printed on the finest of book paper, is 
neither an old man nor a millionaire. 

He is producing the most entertaining historical work of 
which the Granite State can boast. To produce such a work 
calls for great executive as well as literary ability, and not the 
least admirable feature of the progress of the work is the energy 
and generalship which Mr. Willey is exhibiting in carrying for- 
ward the jHiblishing of the book, and introducing it to the pub 
lie, every detail of which Mr. Willey conscientiously supervises. 
— Boston Globe. 

Some men are born historians, same acquire history, and 
some have it thrust ujion them. George F. Willey belongs in 
all three categories. He has the historical imagination, which is 
as necessary to a historian as a musical ear is to a composer ; he 
has accumulated a vast fund of historical knowledge, and histor- 
ical material has been literally thrust u])on him. Every man, 
woman and child in New England has heard of him and his 
unii|ue and picturesque " Book of Nuffield " and mmy know of 
the preparations for his " Simi-Centennial History of Manchester," 
but few are familiar with the actual amount of Libjr involved in 
those ambitious undertakings. For Mr. Willey is not only a 
student, who has pursued independent lines of historical research, 
but he is a worker and organizer, po.<sessed of rare executive 
ability, and with an ardent enthusiasm, he has gone into en- 
terprises that would have made older men hesitate. But he has 
faith in himself, and that is equivalent to a large sized bank ac- 
count ; so he has overcome one obstacle after another, and 
success has smiled upon him. — New York Press. 

It is a monument of industry and pluck. Town histories 
are generally dreary and melancholy affairs-, as dry as a seed cata- 
logue. Not so, however, with this Semi ('entennial book, which 
is as lively and entertaining as a novel. But entertainment is 
not incompatible with accuracy, and as Mr. Willey, the editor, 
has the benefit of the researches of many specialists, who have 
written from original sources, the work possesses uncommon his- 
torical value. It is destined to find a place on the shelves of 
every jjublic library in New England and in thousands of homes. 
^Manchester Union. 

It is only from the whole book that we can get an adequate 
idea of its completeness and its many and varied attractions. 
Mr. Willey has covered every phase of the history of Tyngs 
Township, Harrytown, Derryfield, and Manchester, tliat |)art of 
New Hampshire comprised within the limits of tlie old township 
of Londonderry, from its earliest settlements to the present time, 
and has produced a work that will have enduring value both for 
the historian and genealogist and for the general reader. He 
has departed from the traditions that usually govern compilers 
of histories, and the result is an entertaining book, which will 
enliven while it instructs. — Manchester Mirror. 



The edition of the book is limited. No new 
edition will he published, and when this is ex- 
hausted no one can procure a book at any price. 

Price for the work bound in leather, gilt edges, 
$10.00. Send your orders to George F. Willey, 
Publisher, 64 Hanover street, Manchester, N. H. 



ROCKINGHAM-WEST will be ready for dis- 
tribution sometime during the year 1896. 
It contains historical sketches, biographies, gene- 
alogies, stories, and anecdotes of the western part 
of Rockingham County, N. H., comprising Derry, 
Londonderry, Windham, Chester, Hudson, Hamp- 
stead, Salem, Sandown, and other towns, and is 
profusely illustrated. It is published by George 
F. Willey, Manchester, N. H., and sells for $1.00 
and $2.00 per copy according to style of binding. 




&T.\RK. RUNNING THE G.\UNTLET. 
(See page if>, " Willey's' Book'of Niitfieltl.") 



HON. WILLIAM C. CLARKE. 



HON. WILLIAM COGSWELL CLARKE, life. At the academy and in college he was prom- 

yountjest son of Col. John B. and Susan inent in athletics, scrvino- for two vcars as captain 

(Moulton) Clarke, was born in Manchester March of the Dartmouth ball team and holding the cham- 

17,1856. E.xcepting the late e.\-Gov. Weston, he pionship of the ball throwintr contest, with a 

is the only native of Manchester who was ever record of 358 feet 1 1 inches. He was also winner 

elected mayor of the city. He was chosen to that of other athletic contests, including the 100-yard 



office in 1894 by the 
largest vote ever 
given to a Republi- 
can candidate in the 
citv and by a major- 
itv of 9 1 3, the caucus 
which nominated 
him having been the 
largest ever held in 
the state to name a 
mayoralty candidate. 
After graduating 
from the Manchester 
high school and tak- 
ing a preparatory 
course at Phillips 
Andover Academy, 
Mr. Clarke entered 
Dartmouth and was 
graduated in 1876, 
taking the first pri/e 
in the college com- 
petitive elocutionary 
contest in his senior 
year. Having served 
a two years' a])i)ren- 
ticeship in the late 
Col. Clarke's |)rint- 
ing establishment, he 
began report or ial 




HDN. Wll.l.IAM COGSWELI, CLARKE. 



dash and hurdle 
race. Manchester 
people well remem- 
ber him as foremost 
in the early history 
of professional base- 
ball and as captain of 
one of the strongest 
local teams which 
represented New 
Hampshire. After 
so much active work 
on the diamond Mr. 
Clarke naturallv be- 
came the efficient 
baseball editor of The 
Mirror. He is one 
of the best wing 
shots in the state, 
bagging probablv 
nil ire liirds annuallv 
than any other man. 
He is the owner of 
the famous pointer 
Prince, who at ten 
years of age has had 
shot over him 2340 
woodcock, quail, and 
partridge. Mr. Clarke 
was one of the organ- 



work on The Mirror, soon becoming city editor izers and first president of the Hillsborough Countv 

and filling that position for eight years. Later he Fish and Game Protective Association ; for three 

assumed charge of special departments of the years secretarv of the New Hampshire Road and 

Daily Mirror and Weeklv Mirror and I'armer, and Trotting Horse Breeders' Association ; for a long 

as editor of the horse (U|)artment won for himself time secretarv of the Manchester I)ri\ing Park 

and those papers a national re])utati<)n among Comjianv and one of its directors ; is now vice 

horsemen. Over the nom de plume of "joe president of the New England Trotting Horse 

English " he made the sporting department of the Breeders' Association, of the American League, 

same papers widelv known. llis capacity for and of the New England Agricultural Society, 

leadership in legitimate sports was marked earlv in IK- was a member of the school board for seven 

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years and of the leorislaturc for two years. In the 
latter bndv he was ehairman of the committee on 
fisheries and tjamc. His administration as mayor 
has l)een marked by his characteristic enero;y, the 
huikhna; of new schoolhouses, and the remodellinp; 




ter. Their chiithen are: John Bad2;er, at^ed 13, 
and Mittv Tewkshurv, asjed 14. Both Mr. and 
Mrs. Clarke are social leaders in Manchester, and 
are attendants at the Franklin-Street Congrega- 



He is a member of the Young 



tional Church. 
Men's Christian Association, of the Derryfield, 
Calumet, and Press Clubs, the Board of 'i'rade, the 
Gymnasium, Amoskeag Grange, and president of 
the Elliot Hospital board of trustees and of the 
board of water commissioners. His friends be- 
lieve that a political career which has be<iun so 
ausi)iciouslv as Mayor Clarke's must necessarilv go 
on to still more brilliant achievements. 



HORSES and other domestic animals were com- 
mon in Nutiield from the first settlement. 
During the first vear Abel Merrill was paid twelve 
shillings by the town for horse hire, and James 
Nesmith received eight shillings for the same rea- 
son. The selectmen frequently needed a horse to 
drive to Portsmouth with salmon and cloth for the 
state officials, and also, as the records state, in 
"going down for the elements of the Sacrament." 
Manv of the people must have required the ser- 
vices of horses in going to church, on account of 
the long distances to be travelled. Deacon James 
Reid, father of General George Reid, lived in 
Kilrea, in the extreme southern part ot L^err\-, hut 
he always attended the West Parish church. The 
McClary family lived in the western part of Lon- 
donderry, near the ]>resent site of the Baptist 
church, and they were prominent members of the 
East Parish. It is not known at just what time 
oxen came into general use for farm work, hut 
there were plenty of cows as early as March, 1722, 
wlun it was voted in town meeting " that all per- 
sons shall have liberty to bring in cattle to the 
town, so as to make up the number of six, and no 
more, and those that have cattle of their own have 
the libertv to bring the number of ten if they bring 
a bull with them, otherwise to bring in no more." 
In the same vear hogs had become so plenty and 
of the old city hall into an architectural ornament so troublesome, being allowed to run at large, that 
to the city being but two of the many signs of a by-law was passed compelling their owners to 
new municipal life under his guidance. Mr. \()ke them between the 20th of March and the last 
Clarke married Miss Mary O. Tewksbuiy, daugh- of October. No one was so poor that he could 
ter of the late E. Greene Tewksbury of Manches- not keep a few sheeji and some poultrv. 




CITY HAM., MANCHESIKR. 



HON. CHARLES H. BARTLETT. 



MON. CHARLES HENRY BARTLETT for the New Hampshire district, which office be 
A 1 was born in Sunapce, Oct. 15, 1833, the held until 1883, when he resigned to accept a seat 
fourth son of Jolin and Sarali J. (Sanborn) Bartlett. in the state senate to which he had been elected 
He is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation by an unprecedented majority. He was clerk of 
of Richard Bartlett, who came from England to the senate from 1 861 to 1864, and private secretary 
Newbury, Mass., in the ship Mary and John in to Governor Smyth in 1865-66. In 1872 he was 

elected mayor of 
Manchester, l)ut re- 
signed before the 
expiration of his 
term on account of 
the federal office he 
held. His last offi- 
cial act was ti) turn 
over his salarv to 
liie Firemen's Relief 
Association. In iSSi 
Dartmouth College 
conferred upon him 
the degree of Master 
of Arts. Upon the 
assembling of the 
senate of 1883 he 
was unanimously 
chosen by his partv 
associates as their 
candidate for the 
presidency of that 
body, which office 
he held during his 
term of service. He 
was a member of the 
constitutional con- 
ventions of 1876 and 
1889. Mr. Bartlett 
married, Dec. 8, 18^8, 



1634. Mr. Bartlett's 
early life was mainly 
spent on his father's 
farm, working in the 
summer season and 
attending school in 
winter. He early 
developed a decided 
taste for literary pur- 
suits, and from child- 
hiiod de\-otetl a lii)- 
eral share of his leis- 
ure moments to the 
perusal of such books 
as were accessible. 
He also contributed 
to the current litera- 
ture of the day and 
showed remarkable 
facility in both prose 
and ])oetic composi- 
tion. After attend- 
ing tile academies at 
Washington and 
New London, lie l)e- 
gan the study of law 
in the office of Met- 
calf cS: Barton at 
New])i)it, studying 
subsecjuently wi t h 

George <S. Foster at Concord and with Morrison Miss Hannah M. Eastman of Croydon, by whom 
tSc Stanley at Manchester, being admitted to the he had one son, Charles Leslie, who died at the 
Hillsborough County bar in 1S5S. In that year age of four years, and one daughttr. Clara Bell, 
he began the ])ractice of his jjiofession at Went- Mrs. Bartlett died julv 25, i 890. Mr. Bartlett might 
worth, and in 1863 removed to Manchester, where easily have attained the highest honors within the 
he h;is since resided. For about two years he was gift of his |iarty and state, but he has persistently 
llu- pailiur of the late Hon. James U. Parker, the declinetl all ovirtures for political or official pre- 
partiuiship terminating with the retirement of the ferment. His recent orations have been widely 
latter liDin active business. In 1867 he was read and brought him great fame as a most elo- 
appointed clerk of the United States district court (juent and accomplished orator. 

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HON. CH.\RI.ES HF.NRV K.ARTLETT. 



HON. EDGAR J. KNOWLTON, 



HON. EDGAR JAV KNOWLTON, success- his election as mavor in 1890, when he received 

fill as newspaper man, as leoislator, as 1460 of the 15 17 votes cast in the Democratic 

mayor and as postmaster of Manchester, was nominatins; caucus, and carried the city by a plu- 

born in Sutton Aujn;. 8, 1856, the son of James raHty of 132 votes over Thomas W. Lane, admit- 

and Mary F. (Marshall) Knowlton. Being tedly the most popular Republican in Manchester 

the eldest of eight children of a family in at the time — and this too when the Republicans 

carried the city by 



moderate circum- 
stances, he enjoyed 
l)ut limitcti educa- 
tional opportunities, 
and at the age of six- 
teen went to Man- 
chester to seek his 
fortune. For two 
years he worked as 
apprentice in the 
printing office of the 
Manchester Union, 
becoming then a re- 
porter and subse- 
quently city editor of 
the paper. He re- 
mained in this ])osi- 
tion until 1880, when 
he went to Lockport, 
N. v., and took edi- 
torial charge of the 
Daily Union of that 
place, conducting the 
journal with marked 
success until his re- 
turn to Manchester, 
in January, 1881, to 
accept a flattering 
offer from Col. Jt>hn 
B. Clarke to take a 




HON. EDGAR JAV KNOWLTON. 



over 600 plurality 
for their gubernato- 
rial candidate. Mr. 
Knowlton was the 
first mavtjr to devote 
his whole time to the 
duties of the position, 
and so hearty was 
the commendation 
of his administration 
felt throughout the 
citv that at the suc- 
ceeding municipal 
election, although 
the Republicans 
swept tlie citv by a 
large majority for 
everv office save that 
of mavor, he was re- 
elected over the Re- 
publican nominee by 
a majoritv of 1386, 
the largest ever given 
to any mayoralty can- 
didate. His second 
administration was 
as brilliant as his first. 
He was instrumental 
in the accom])lish- 
enterprises which a less 



position on the Daily Mirror and AnK-riean. Here menl of reforms an( 

he remained until 1884, when he again became energetic man would take a lifetime in bringing 

city editor of the Union, resigning in Februarv, about. He was the first of Manchester's mayors 

1890, to accept the office of secretary of the newlv to advocate the high service water supply, and 

organized Manchester Board of Trade. His popu- under his administration this was realized at an 

larity in Manchester was emphatically shown by expenditure of $250,000. Its necessity was evident 

his election on the Democratic ticket to the state in the winter of 1894-5, when but for the iiigh 

legislature in 1886, when he received a majority of pressure service the city would have experienced 

seventy-six votes in a ward ordinarilv Republican all the hardshijjs of a water famine. A war loan 

by 200. Still more emphaticallv was it shown bv of $ i 20,000, which had been bearing six percent 





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BELLE FRANCES KNOWLTON. 




inlciLSt for thirty years, was paid off diuin<r his 
achiiinistratiun, although prior to his election no 
proyision had been made for this. He also secured 
the adoi)tion of the beneficent plan ot a sinking fund 
to liquidate obligations at their maturity ; did away 
witli the discount on taxes, thereby making a large 

saying to the city ; se- 
cured a reyenue to tlie 
city treasury in return for 
city deposits ; aln'ogated 
an electric light contract 
which was disastrous to 
the city, and executed a 
new one which saycd $22 
per light per annum ; in- 
augurated an annual ex- 
penditure for the deyel- 
opment of Stark and 
Derryfield parks ; erected 
the Hallsyille, Rimmon, 

BESSIE GENEVIEVE KNOWLTON. in i ^ ^ i i 

and Pearl street school- 
houses, and built large additions to several other 
schooliiouses ; built the ward five wardroom, the 
Second-street steel and stone bridge, and the 
South Main street stone bridge, the Walter M. 
I-"ulton engine house, the South Manchester hose- 
house, and strengthened 
the fire department in 
various ways. But space 
will not permit even the 
i-nunuration of all the 
enterjjrises and reforms 
in which Mavor Knowl- 
ton took the initiative. 
Suffice to say that a new 
era in the municipal life 
of Manchester was fairly 
begun with his adminis- 
tration. On May 11, 
1894, having resigned the 
office of mayor on the 
preceding day, he took possession of tlie Man- 
chester postofficc, and his time has since been de- 
voted not only to maintaining the office at its high 
standard of efficiency, but to the inauguration of 
numerous reforms which have been particularly 
pleasing to the public. Mr. Knowlton is a mem- 
ber of the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order 



of United Workmen, the Improved Order of Red 
Men, the Patrons of Husbandry, and various other 
organizations. He was married, Nov. 2, 1880, to 
Miss Genevieve I. Blanchard of Nicholvillc, N. V., 
and has two daughters: Bessie Genevieve, born 
April 2, 1885, and Belle Frances, born Oct. 3, 1887. 



T^HE FOUNDERS OF LONDONDERRY, 
A remarkable themselves for thrift and energ)% 
were not slow in transplanting their young and 
vigorous saplings to the fertile and promising soil 
of adjoining counties and states, as subsequent 
years have shown stalwart trees and powerful in- 
fluences for gootl, matured from developed saplings 
of the Scotch-Irish stock thus sent out. 

Perhaps no more valuable illustration of the 
vitality and true worth of such transplanted stock 
has been found than in a sketch of the life of Rev. 
Charles E. Brown, a lineal descendant of the early 
Dickey importation from the north of Ireland. 
His mother was Betsey Dickey, whose father, 
Joseph Dickey, settled early in Weathersfield, Vt. 
Betsey married a Baptist minister, Rev. Philip 
Peirv Brown, and Charles E. was a son born Feb. 
23, 18 1 3. Probably from an inherited disposition 
and an anxious desire to do good, he earl\ entered 
the ministry and after spending a few years in 
New \'ork state, in his chosen profession, he asked 
to be sent by the Baptist Missionary Society to 
the territory of Iowa. This was in 1841, and he 
thus enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer 
Baptist minister in the now great state of Iowa, 
and with the help of his noble young wife, Frances 
Lyon, he was largely instrumental in laying broad 
and deep in Iowa and the new country west of the 
Mississippi river the foundation of one of the 
great branches of the Christian Church, and now, 
in the sunset of life, at eighty-three years of age, he 
is waiting, with a cheerful heart and sunny smile, 
for the boatman to ferry him over the river. He 
is living with his son, Mr. W. C. Brown of St. 
Joseph, Mo., who is one of the most prominent 
and capable railroad managers in the West, and 
who, with his excellent companion, spares no pains 
to make bright and pleasant the pathway of his 
honored sire adown the hill of life. 



MANCHESTER BOARD OF TRADE, 



IN the 

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6o's Manchester had a lioard of trade. It (irenier, Chirence M. Edgerly, and R. D. VV. 
meetings for several years, was ineor- McKav. Tlie preliminarv meeting was largely 
July 14, 1H77, and occupied for a time attended. Hon. Gecjrge B. Chandler was chosen 

chairman, and C. M. Edgerly secretary. Enthusi- 
astic remarks in favor of a live hoard of trade were 
made by Mr. Chandler, Hon. Charles H. Bartlett, 
Col. John H. Clarke, Hon. David Cross, George 
A. Leighton, John C. French, Hon. P. C. Chencv, 
Col. B. C. Dean, Hon. James F. Briggs, and others. 
A second meeting was held l^'eb. 5, when a com- 
mittee, of which James F. Briggs was chairman, 
re|)orted a constitution and hv-laws, which were 
adopted. A committee to nominate officers re- 
ported the following list, which was elected : 
President, George B. Chandler ; vice presidents, 
Herman F. Straw, P. C. Cheney; treasurer, Henry 
Chandler; secretary, Edgar |. Knowlton ; direc- 




CHARLES C. HAVES. 




head(iuarters in Riddle block. Hon. Daniel Clark 
was j)resident and Hon. H. K. Slayton, secretary. 
After accomplishing some good in the way of 
securing lower rates on coal freighted from the 
seaboard, and in some other directions, the or- 
ganization declined. A balance of $142 in its i 
treasury was, by unanimous vote of surviving mem- 
bers, turned over to the present board of trade on 
Sept. 16, 1893. j 

In 1890 the need of a business organization 
resulted in a call for a public meeting to be held in 

City Hall Jan. 22, " for the purpose of organizing -— — 

an association designed to aid and encourage new 
industries and the commercial interests of the city 

of Manchester." The call was signed by George tors, G. B. Chandler, Frank Dowst, John B. 
B. Chandler, Hiram D. Upton, John C. Frencii, \'arick, H. D. Upton, John C. French, Andrew 
Charles T. Means, George A. Leighton, William Bunton, Frank M. Gerrish, E, M. Slayton, and 
Corey, Alonzo Elliott, Frank P. Kimball, A. G. Frank P. Carpenter. Over sixty business men 

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HKRr.KRI- W. EASTMAN. 





sisincd tlic constitution at the lirst meetin<j. The 
board was particiihulv fortunate in the selection of 
its first officers. Hon. George B. Chandler was an 
enthusiastic believer in the advantasjes to be de- 
rived from a live ortjanization of business men. 
Me was ])ossessed of a strong faith in the future 
of Manchester. He made an ideal presiding offi- 
cer, drew into his directorv some able associates, 
and the new organization at once sprang into pop- 
ularitv and immediately became a power for good 
in the Oueen City. The chief object of the board, 
as defined in the constitution, is to " promote the 
prosperity of the Queen City of New Hampshire," 
or in other words, " to secure a union of the ener- 
gies, influence, and action of citizens in all matter."^ 
pertaining to the welfare of the city of Manches- 
ter ; to encourage all legitimate business enter- 
prises ; to collect and disseminate through the press 
and otherwise information respecting Manchester 
as a manufacturing city and a place of residence." 
Any person a resident of or having a place of 
business or owning real estate in Manchester may 
beccjme a member. The board has standing com- 
mittees on finance, manufacturing and mercantile 
affairs, municipal affairs, insurance, railroads and 
transportation, statistics, and new industries and 
enter])rises. 

As the first secretary, Edgar J. Knowlton 
began the work with a zeal which characterizes all 
his endeavors. He was an old newspaper worker, 
thoroughlv acquainted with the citizens and the 
needs of the citv. The membersliii) the first vear 
was brought up to 273, and by the concerted 
efforts of the officers, much good was accom- 
plished. The advantages of the city were dis- 
])layeti tiirough industrial and other iiai)ers and bv 
till' publication of 5,000 copies of a handv little 
volume entitled "Statistics of the Oueen City." 
The board collected and pul)lished information 
concerning the wholesale and retail trade of the 
city ; it took an active part in securing land for 
Stark park, and in the effort to get an e(iuestrian 
statue of Gen. John Stark; it established mer- 
chants' weeks ; it has encouraged people to ])a- 
tronize home industries; it distributed 25,000 letter 
sheets containing valuable facts about the city ; it 
has advocated the establishment of a new countv 
with Manchester as its centre ; it secured a postal 

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route between Manchester and North Weare ; it 
procured an earlier mail deliverv in the city; it in- 
sured the doubling of capacity of the East Man- 
chester shoeshop ; it created the West Side com- 
pany, capital $35,000, which built a brick shoeshop 
200x45, occupied bv Crafts iS: Green, who em- 
ploy over 300 hands. 

The board of trade, in its earlv existence, agi- 
tated the relaving of rails from North Weare to 
Henniker, which afttr long legal complications, 
was finallv brought about in 1893. T'^^" li<''H'd has 
continuall)- urged the need of a first class electric 
railway system in the city. During the session of 
the legislature of 1H95, the board took active 
preparations to secure a charter for an electric 
railway, but the present management e.\]iressly 
pledging the installation of a first class svstem im- 
mediatelv, the jjroposed charter was not obtained. 
As a result of this mo\ement, Manchester is now 
supplied with as good an electric street railway 
system as is in operation in the entire country. 
71ie board of trade has also been especiallv active 
in the endeavor to secure a charter for a railroad 
from Milford to Manchester. 

Through the efforts of the board, directly or 
indirectly, numerous successful industries have 
been added to the citv. The one single shoeshop 
fostered by the board has grown to seven large 
shops, emploving at least 2,000 hands and turning 
out over 10,000 pairs of shoes every day, and dis- 
tributing nearlv a million dollars yearly in wages. 

The Manchester board of trade was the first 
in New England to establish a merchants' week. 
As a result, the retail trade is greatly stimulated 
each October, and thousands of people from all 
over the stale, and tven bevond New Hampshire, 
have become acijuainted with the enterprise of our 
live business men. During the merchants' week 
of 1894 nearlv 13,000 people came to Manchester 
on rcnuid trij) tickets. 

Secretary Knowlton, who had been elected 
mayor of the city, resigned his position with the 
board in May, 1891, and the directors unanimously 
elected Herbert W. Eastman his successor, who 
has been re-elected bv each board of directors 
since. vVfter servmg two years, the first board of 
officers was succeeded bv Edward M. Slay ton as 
president; Henry E. I3urnham and Charles D. 




^</ie)Teil-^t>.TbMEJ 




McDuffie, vice presidents; and E. M. Slavton, 
James W. H\\\, Henry B. Fairbanks, Charles M. 
Fluyd, Frank W. Fitts, Horace Marshall, Charles 
C. Hayes, L. I 1. Jossehn, and Denis A. Holland, 
(luectors. Treasurer Henry Chandler has been 
contiiiualh' re-elected. At the annual meetinii' i'l 
January, I1S94, the tollowin^; ofTicers were elected : 
President, Charles C. Hayes; vice presidents, 
H. E. Burnham, James W. Hill ; directors, C. C. 
Hayes, William Marcotte, Fred B. Ellis, O. D. 
Knox, James P. Slattery, Charles E. Cox, Walter 
G. Africa, Edward F. Scheer, and Charles F. 
Green. 

The headquarters of the hoard were first in 
the rear of A. J. Lane's real estate office in City 
Hall huildiny-. Meeting's of the hoard were held 
in City Hall. The need of larger and better quar- 
ters was apparent, and in September, 1891, two 
large rooms in Merchants Exchange were secured, 
where the office of the secretary was established 
and meetings of the board were held. In May, 
1894, headquarters were obtained on the sixth 
lloor of the magnificent Kennard buikiing, the 
finest business l)loek north of Boston. A large 
room seating one hundred is handsomely furnished 
with tables, chairs, desks, and pictures, and several 
desks are rented to business men wdio only need 
desk room. Sliding doors open into a carpeted 
and finely furnished room for the use of directors, 
committees, etc. The headquarters are supjilied 
with telephone, writing materials, daily, weekly, 
antl trade papers, stock reports, etc., and are open 
to members and the public every day and three 
evenings each week. The board has a membership 
of over three hundred, comprising nearly eyery 
prominent business concern in the city. Secretary 
Eastman publishes quarterly the Board of Trade 
Journal, which has a large circulation and is hand- 
somely printed and illustrated. The Manchester 
board is connected with the New Hampshire 
Board of 'frade, of which Mr. Eastman is secretary 
and treasurer. 

Charles C. Hayes, president of the board and 
one of the most active and successful young busi- 
ness men in the city, was born in New London, 
N. H., May 31, 1855. He is the son of John M. 
and Susan E. (Carr) Hayes, both of whom were 
natives of that town, his father having been a 



merchant in New London antl Salisbury for many 
years and a prominent citizen and a real estate 
owner in Manchester. Mr. Haves received his 
earl\- education in the common schools of his 
native tcnvn antl of Salisbmv, and upon coming to 
Manchester, in 1869, attended the high school, 
graduating in 1875. .After three years of mercan- 
tile experience he bought the store of the Co- 
operative Trade Association, which he conducted 
successfully for several \ears. In US82 he began a 
general real estate, mortgage, loan, and fire insur- 
ance business, which has grown and prospered and 
wdiich he has managed ever since. He is regarded 
as one of the best judges of real estate values in 
the city, and he is often called upon to appraise 
property of that kind. He does an extensive busi- 
ness in buying and selling real estate and has 
assisted greath' in the development of suburban 
real estate. His business connections are numer- 
ous. He is vice president and director of the New 
Hamjishne Trust Company, president of the 
Thomas A. Lane Conijianv, president of the 
Orange Mica Mining Company, treasurer and 
director of the Kennedy Land Company, treasurer 
and director of the Rinimon Manufacturing Com- 
pany, and clerk of the Manchester Shoe Manufac- 
turing Compan3^ He was a director of the board of 
trade in 1892, vice president in 1893, and was 
unanimously elected its president in 1894, and 
re-elected in 1893. Under his management the 
board has grown rapidly in membership and in- 
fluence, ranking today as one of the largest and 
most nourishing business organizations in New 
England. He is also j)resident of the Manchester 
Fire Underwriters' Association. In Masonry Mr. 
Haves has an honorable and exalted record. He 
is Past Worshijiful Master of Washington Lodge, 
A. F. and A. M., member of Mt. Horeb Royal 
Arch Chapter, has been thrice Illustrious Master of 
Adoniram Council, Eminent Commander of Trinity 
Commanderw K. i .. all of Manchester, and Grand 
Commander of the Cirand Commandery of New 
Hampshire. He is now in his second term as 
Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in New 
Hampshire. He is also a thirty-second degree 
Mason, being a member of E. A. Raymond Con- 
sistory of Nashua. In politics Mr. Hayes is an 
earnest Democrat. He has been president of the 





Granite State Club and an active party worker for 
several years. In 1894, as Democratic candidate 
for niavor of Manchester, he received a flattering 
vote, including the sujijiort of numerous members 
of the opposing partv. He is an eloquent and 
pleasing public speaker and presents his thoughts 
with force and clearness. As president of the 
First Baptist Society, he wields an influence in 
religious circles. Mr. Hayes was married, Jan. i, 
1885, to Belle J., daughter of John and Hannah B. 
(Tewksburv) Kennard, who died Aug. i, i8go, 
leaving three children : John Carroll, now nine 
years okl ; Louise K., aged seven, and Annie Belle, 
aged five. 

Flerbert Walter Eastman, secretary of the 
Manchester board of trade, was born in Lowell, 
Mass., Nov. 3, 1857. He attended the public schools 
of that eit\- until 1870, when he went to Boston 
and was employed in a large wholesale and retail 
store. In 1873 he came to Manchester and went 
to the Lincoln grammar school, graduating in the 
class of 1874, taking the highest honors in peii- 
manshi]) and ilrawing. Soon afterward he went 
to work in the Daily Mirror office, in spare hours 
studying wood engraving and making numerous 
illustrations for the dailv and weekly editions. In 
187s he iMitered the employ of Campbell iS: Ilan- 
scom, of tiie Daih' I'nion, and worked in every 
depaitmc-nt from the pressroom to reportorial and 
editorial work and |)roof reading. When the 
LTnion was made a morning i)aper he was assistant 
local reporter, and in June, 1880, he was promoted 
to the citv editorshij), which he resigned in Jan- 
uary, 1 88 I, because of ill health. Aug. i, 1884, he 
became city editor of the Weekly Budget, writing 
also numerous articles on industrial and historical 
subjects. In 1886, with F. TI. ("Iiallis, he i)ur- 
chased the Budget, and with him started the jjub- 
lieation of the Dailv Press and was its city editor. 
In 1889 he sold his interest to Mr. Challis, but 
continued in charge of the local department till 
early in 1891, when he accepted a position as 
assistant secretar\ of the board of trade, the 
secretary, E. }. Knowlton, ha\ing bein elected 
mayor of the citw Irif May, 1891, Mr. Knowllon 
resigned and Mr. liastman was unanimously 
elected secretary of the board, and has been re- 
elected each year since. During his term as 



secretary the board has gained nearly a hundred 
members and now has the largest membership and 
occupies the linest headquarters of any such 
organization in New England outside of IJoston. 
By a system of renting desk room, originating with 
Secretary Eastman, the expenses of the board are 
very much reduced. He is a Fast Grand of Wildey 
Lodge, and a member of Mount Washington En- 
campment, 1. O. O. F., United Order of Friends, 
United American Mechanics, and Amoskeag 
Grange, P. of H., president of the Manchester 
Press Club, treasurer of the Coon Club, an organ- 
ization of newspaper men of the state, and ])resi- 
dent of the Manchester Cadet Veteran Associa- 
tion. He married, Jan. 9, 1890, Nellie Clough 
Eaton, daughter of George E. and Lucinda 
(French) Eaton of Candia, N. FI. 




GOVERN.\IENT BUILDING, MANCHESTER. 



HON. JAMES A. WESTON, 



HON. JAMES A. WESTON was burn in 
what is now Manchester, Autj. 27, 1827. 
He was the lineal descendant of a family promi- 
nent and influential in the colonization of New 
Eno-land, his ancestors coming orijrinally from 
lkickini;hamshire, England, early in the seven- 
teenth centur\-. In 1(322 John Weston and his 
brother-in-law, Richard Green, came to Wey- 
mouth, then called Wiscasset, and aided in the 
formation of a colony. In 1644 a son of John 
Weston, whose name also was Jt)hn, concealino; 
himself in an emigrant shi]) until well out at sea, 
obtained a passage to America and joined his 
relatives in Massachusetts. He finally settled in 
Reading, Mass., and became distinguished for his 
services in the administration ol the colonial gov- 
ernment. From him sjjrang the lineage to which 
the subject of this sketcii belongs. Amos Weston, 
'"ather of James A. Weston, was born in Reading, 
Mass., in 1791. He moved to New^ Hampshire in 
1803 and settled in a secticm of Manchester which 
was formerly a part of Londonderry. He was a 
farmer, and was promment in the management of 
the town's business and affairs. In 1814 he mar- 
ried Miss Bctsev VN'ilson, a daughter of Colonel 
Robert Wilson of Londonderry, and granddaughter 
of lames Wilson, who came from Londonderry, 
Ireland, and was one of those indomitable Scotch- 
Irish whose courage, thrift, and persistency became 
such a factor in the growth of the new colony. 
The childhood and youth of James A. Weston 
were spent on his father's farm, and his education 
was obtained in the district schools and academies 
of Manchester. He mastered thoroughly the 
profession of civil engineering while engaged in 
teaching school in Londonderrv and Manchester. 
In 1846, while only nineteen years of age, he was 
appointed assistant engineer of the Concord Rail- 
road, and in 1849 he was made chief engineer of 
that road. As chief engineer he superintended the 
construction of the Manchester tSi Candia and the 
Suncook Valley railroads. In 1854 he married 
.\nna S. Gilmore of Concord, by whom he hatl 
si.\ children: Herman, Grace Helen, James Henry, 
Edwin Bell, Annie Mabel, and Charles Albert 
Weston, all of whom survive except Herman. 



In politics he was alwa\ s a Democrat. In 
1862 he was a candidate for mayor, but was de- 
feated. In the following year he was again a can- 
didate and was again defeated by only a few votes, 
but in 1867 he was elected riiayor over Hon. 
Joseph B. Clark. In 1868 he was again the un- 
successful candidate, but was elected in 1870 and 
in 1871. While mayor he conferred lasting benefit 
upon the city bv the establishment of a system of 
water-works. As ex-officio member of the board 
of water commissioners he was untiring in his 
efforts to hasten to completion the important un- 
dertaking. He continued until his death a mem- 
ber of the board, giving to that body the best 
results of his foresight and experience. In 1870, 
by the almost unanimous choice of his party, Mr. 




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THE WESTON RESIDENCE. 



Weston became the nominee for go\'ernor. There 
was no election bv the people, although he 
received a iilurality of votes. He was chosen 
governor by the legislature, however, and in 1872 
he was again the gubernatorial candidate against 



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K/t'kicl A. Sliaw, liiit was defeated. In 
iS7j^ lie was also defeated l>v the same candidate. 
lie lan the fourth timi-, and was fai- ahead of his 
o])])onent, (ien. Luther McC'utehins. There was 
no choice b\' llu' ])eo|)le, ho\\e\er, and Gov. 
Weston was asiiiin elected by the le<iislature. He 
served as chairman of the New IIam|)shire Cen- 
tennial Commission, and was ajiiiointed hv con- 
gress a member of the board of linance. He was 
also chairman of the building- committee of the 
soldiers' monument. Upon the establishment of 
the state board of health he was elected a member 
as sanitarv engineer, hoUling that position until 
his death. Mr. Weston was aetivelv interested in 
tiie fmancial and charitable institutions of Man- 
chester. He was trustee of the Amoskeag Savings 
bank, and in 1S77 he was elected president of the 
City National bank, which lias since lieen changed 
to the Merchants' National bank. He was treas- 
urer and one of the trustees of the Guaranty 
Savings bank from its incorporation; treasurer of 
the Suncook \'allev railroad and one of the pro- 
moters and director of the Manchester Street 
railroad ; one of the incorporators of the New 
Hampshire Fire Insurance Company and has 
always, with the exception of a few years, been its 
jiresident. In iSSothe supreme court appointed 
him chairman of the board of trustees foi- the 
bondholders of the Manchester & Kcene railroad. 
In 1S64 he was elected treasurer of Trinity Com- 
nianderw a position which lie tln'reafter held, and 
he was treasurer of the Elliot hos|)ital for main 
\ears. In TS71 Dartmouth ('ollegc conferred on 
him the degree of master of arts. Gov. Weston 
died May 8, 1895, beloved and mourned b\ tin- 
entire eomniunit\-. Juiii' i i. the Manchester board 
of trade took appro])riate action upon his tleath, 
a committee consisting of Mavor Clarke and e.\- 
Mavors Barlletl and Knowlton reporting a series 
of highly eulogistic resolutions which wi-re unaiii- 
niousl\- ado|)ted. Ujion this occasion also Gen. 
Hartlett delivered an elo(|uent and beautiful tribute 
to the memory of the deceasi'd, concluding as 
lollows : 

Like the great mass of our native pojjiilation, born in the 
first lialf of the jwesent century, Crovernor Weston first saw the 
light upon a New Hampshire farm. It was tliere tliat his life 



lialiils were furmcd — there that the generous and noble iinpiil.'-es 
which he inherited from an lionorable ancestry found full and 
free develo])ment — there that the characteristics of the typical 
.American c.tizen found that s-afe and secure anchorage which no 
subsequent contact with adverse influences in after life could 
shake or ilisturb. New Hampshire owes much to her farm-born 
boys and her farm-nurtured youth. They have largely molded 
her character and given to her the honored name she bears and 
her broad and enviable fame which is the pride of every citizen, 
but (ew among them all have made larger individual donations 
to her prosperity and renown than he whose name we honor 
tonight. During all his long connection with most important 
and diversified business affaiis and his most notable career in 
public life, no man has ever said that he ever bowed to tempta- 
tion — was ever swerved by oi)])ortunity or ever looked on duly 
with an interrogation point in his eye. His dollars, were they 
few or many, were honest dollars — not a soiled one, not a 
dishonest one among them. His liberal fortune represents the 
honest earnings of a busy life, and the legitimate apjireciation of 
wise and conservative investments. He never sought riches by 
any attempt to turn other men's wealth into his own jMcket by 
any cunning, craft, or over-reaching. If any illustration of the 
truism that honesty is the best |;olicy was needed, lames A. 
Weston supplied it. 

The proprieties of this occasion admit of only general allu 
sions to his i)rominent characteristics. A recital of the business 
enterprises alone, with which from first to last he has been asso- 
ciated, would involve the com])ilation of a very respectable busi- 
ness catalogue and it would not be confined to Manchester 
alone, but other sections of the state have been largely benefitted 
and their prosperity and development substantially enhanced by 
his enterprise and foresight. His broad comjjrehension and 
excellent judgment poise enabled him to particijiate in a large 
number of business concerns, widely diverse in character, with 
great profit to himself and his associates. Success smiled upon 
all his undertakings — failure knew him not. To everything of 
private or public concern in which he enlisted, his hand was 
helpful — his judgment an anchor of safety and his name a 
jiillar of strength. Manchester, his home as a boy and man — 
ever lo)al and generous to her favored son — often summoning 
him to 'lie helm in her own affairs — repeatedly jjressing him to 
the front in the broader arena of the state — trusting and con 
fiding in him always and everywhere — never disap|)ointed. 
never deceived, — Manchester comes to the front and joins hands 
with his kin of blood in this great sorrow : a sorrow that falls 
upon every home and hearthstone within her borders with the 
force of a personal bereavement. 

'I'hese few words of tribute are ill suited to a life so full of 
good works, so rich in noble example and so fruitful in inspira- 
tion to the busy world it touched in so many relations. But 
(Governor Weston will live in the things he did and the lesults he 
accomplished, and not in what we say of him. In these he will 
live on though the closed eye and the sealed lip may never more 
resjjond to the solicitation of human fellowshi]). Not only 
to us. but to those who will succeed us. his noble life work 
will remain the proudest memorial to the iiieinory of James A. 
Werton. 



HON. HENRY W. BLAIR. 

ITON. llliNRV W. BLAIR, born in Camp- Canipton farmer. He attended the district school 

1 1 ton Dec. 6, 1834, is the son of William winters, and in 185 1. when sixteen years old, l)eo;an 

Henry and Lois (Baker) Blair, being a direct de- attending Holmes' Plymouth Academy, where he 

scendant of James Blair, one of the original settlers was first drawn into political affairs, in schoolboy 

of Nutfield, famous as an eight-foot high giant fashion, there being warm contenticjn among the 

whose supreme contempt for the red men and their students in those days of sprouting abolitionism. 

After two terms at 




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warfare went a great 
wav toward protect- 
ing the people and 
property of London- 
derry. His fore- 
fathers were prom- 
inent in the siege of 
old Lon do nd er ry. 
Mr. Blair's mother 
was the granddaugh- 
ter of Moses Baker 
of Candia, who was 
a king's suryeyor in 
the early days and 
later a member of 
the famous commit- 
tee of safety of the 
Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, and was a 
captain at tiie battle 
of Bennington and 
the siege of Boston. 
It is plain, therefore, 
that New 11 am p- 
shire's honored Blair 
is descended from 
Revolutionary stock 
on both sides of the 
family, as well as 
from the solid Scotch- 
Irish pioneers who made tiie wholesome l)eginning 
tliat has meant so much to this section of the 
country. 

William Henry Blair met with a fatal accident 
when the son, Henry, was but two \ears old, and 
the mother was left with several small children. 
She iHit them out among the farmers of that sec- 
tion, but kept a home with the youngest, a babe in 
arms, at Plymouth, until she died a few years later. 
Henry made his home with Richard Bartlett, a 



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term. 



lie next year 



he 



Plymouth he at- 
tend e d the N e w 
Hampshire Confer- 
ence Seminary one 
term. 

For a year begin- 
ning in 1853, the am- 
bitious young student 
worked at making 
picture frames at 
Sanbornton Bridge 
(now Tilton) to earn 
money to jnit him- 
self through college. 
The man he worked 
for failed, owing 
Blair his year's wages. 
T h e \' o u n g m a n 
caught the measles 
and was sick a long 
time, almost unto 
death. Meanwhile 
he had kept u]) his 
connections at the 
seminary by active 
society membership, 
and in the fall of 
1854 attended that 
institution another 
took anothi'r term at 



Plymiiuth, all the time supporting himself b\' 
teaching and in other wa\-s. 

In 1856 he began reading law with William 
Leverett at Phinouth, and was aihnitted to the 
bar in 1859, remaining with Mr. Le\erett as part- 
ner. He was ai)]Hjinte(l solicitor for (irafton 
eount\' in i860 and served two years with unusual 
ethciency, handling several formidable murder 
cases like a veteran lawyer. During these years 





>f prrparatidii for a prominent public life lie had 
the intclk'ctual assistance of Samuel A. Burns 
of PKniouth, a retired teacher who had moulded 
manv young" minds before and lent such aid to this 
\(iun<i- New Hampshire boy as only a scholar of 
leisure and tleep learning could. 

When the War of the Rebellion bioke out Mr. 
Blair tried to enlist in the fifth and twH'lfth regi- 
ments, but poor health had left him in such a bad 
condition physically that he was not accepted, until 
the fifteenth regiment was formed. For this he 
raised a company, enlisted as a private, was elected 
captain, and later appointed major by the gov- 
ernor and council. He -had about a year's service 
at the front, when his regiment was discharged in 
1S63, he then having the rank of lieutenant- 
colonel. Col. Blair's first battle service was at the 
siege of Fort Hudson, and he was severely 
wounded twice during that siege. He was in 
command of his regiment most of the time. After 
the discharge of his regiment Lieut. Col. Blair was 
appointed deputy provost marshal, held the posi- 
tion about a year, but rendered little active service 
on account of wounds and sickness. He was 
unable through ill health, caused by his wounds 
and diseases contracted in the war, to do much at 
his profession for six years. 

Col. Blair was elected to the New Hampshire 
legislature from Plymouth in 1866, and was prom- 
inent in the hot political battle that resulted in the 
election of J. W. Patterson to the United States 
senate. In 1S67 and 1868 Mr. Blair represented 
the old eleventh district in the state senate. Then 
began for lawyer Blair a season of prosperity, 
lie had ])ractically regained his health and 
with it the ambitions of youth were revived. 
Between the thirty-thirtl and the fortieth years of 
life he built uj) what was considered as large and 
lucrative a practice as that of any country lawyer 
in the state. 

Political conditions drew the scjldier and 
lawver into the service of his party, his state, and 
his country. New Hampshire had fallen into the 
habit of t'lecting Democratic gt)vernors antl con- 
gressmen with an ease that filled the Republican 
camp with a|)])rehensi()n. A national election was 
due m 1S7I), and prospects were good for Dem- 
ocratic success unless New Hampshire could be 



recovered by the Republicans in the spring of 
1875. This opinion seemed to prevail among 
leaders of the party throughout the country, and 
strong candidates must therefore be nominated in 
the Granite state to stem the tide as far as pos- 
sible. Accordinglv Col. Blair was nominated for 
congress in the old third district against Col. 
Henry O. Kent, and after a hard fought campaign 
was elected m spite of the fact that party leaders 
had considered it a hopeless struggle. Hon. P. C. 
Cheney was chosen governor by a narrow margin, 
his election being made possible by the success of 
Col. Blair in the third congressional district. Mr. 
Blair had onlv 164 majority, but it was the begin- 
ning of many phenomenal political victories. 
Democrats were elected in both the other districts. 
Col. Blair had lost his law practice and had spent 
his money in the campaign, but the Republicans 
secured the next president after a contest over the 
Hayes-Tilden election. 

Mr. Blair was elected to congress again in 
1877, after another hard struggle; was elected 
United States senator in 1879, and again in 1885. 
He was then tendered the United States district 
judgeship for New Hampshire, but declined for 
reasons plain to him as a man of highest honor. 
In 1 89 1 ex-senator Blair was appointed minister 
to China by President Harrison, but was rejected 
by the Chinese government because of the em- 
phatic opposition the senator had shown to 
Chinese immigration. Elected to the national 
house in 1892 from the first New Hamjishire dis- 
trict, and declining a renomination, Mr. Blair 
retired after two years of hard service in the fifty- 
third congress, and is now in ])rivate life practising 
law in Manchester. 

It is seldom given to one son of any state to 
serve so well and so long her interests in national 
affairs. Full of the courage of his convictions 
from the beginning to the end, Mr. Blair came out 
of the political wars bearing an unblemisiied 
recortl. His head an<l hantls were always active in 
the cause of right and of progress. He was a 
close student and a deep thinker at all times, and 
gave all the best of his talents to his official life, 
and the measure was never stinted. 

The congressional history of his time is full 
of his work. Some of the principal measures 





which Mr. Blair ori<>;inated and advocated arc the 
proposed amendment to the national constitution 
prohibitini>- the manufacture of and traffic in alco- 
holic beverages ; the amendmi'nt of the constitu- 
tion providing for non-sectarian public schools; 
the Common School or the Education bill ; the 
Sundav Rest bill; the Dependent Pension bill, and 
other public and jMivate legislation |)roviding for 
the soldiers of the countrv and their relatives; the 
establishment of tlu' dejiartment of labor and 
much of the labor and industrial legislation of the 
past twentv vears, including the law providing for 
rebates upon toreign materials manuiactured here 
for exportation ; the joint resolution first proposing 
political union with Canada, and legislation for the 
promotion of the interests of agriculture through- 
out the country. The amendment giving the 
right of suffrage to women was introduced by 
him and was under his special charge in the senate. 

Some of Senator Blair's speeches and reports, 
which have been most widely circulated, are upon 
finance and the nature and uses of money, temper- 
ance, woman suffrage, education, Chinese immigra- 
tion, foreign trade and relations, reconstruction, 
suffrage, social and i)olitical conditions of the 
country, the tariff, the relations between labor and 
capital, and all the more important and funda- 
mental questions, some of which have been con- 
sidered of an advanced and radical nature. Bishop 
Newman said of him : " The only just criticism upon 
Mr. Blair is that he is fifty vears ahead of his tunes." 

No public servant can point with more honest 
pride to an active career during which he has 
cared better for the interests of his constituents 
than can Mr. Blair. lie is more widely known 
than any other New Hampshire man, and hon- 
ored everywhere. His speeches on the stump at 
home and in various parts of the country have 
been numerous and diversified. In 1888 Mr. Blair 
pubiislied a book on " The Temperance Move- 
ment ; or, the ConHicl o{ Man with Alcohol," of 
which Bisiiop Hurst of the Methodist Episcojial 
Church said : " It is probably the most important 
contribution to tem|)erance literature that lias 
been made by anv author." I lis hand has been 
felt in many public benefits. He was leading fac- 
tor in the establishment of the State Normal School 
at Plymouth, and the Holderness School for Boys, 



in securing the beautiful public Iniilding for Man- 
chester, and in the movement for a national monu- 
ment for Cren. John Stark to l)e placed in Stark 
Park, Manchester. 

Mr. Blair was married in 1859 to Eliza Nel- 
son, daughter of Rev. William Nelson of Ply- 
mouth, N. II., and to her owes much of the sus- 
taming power that lias matle his public life a credit 
to him. Thev iiave one son, Henrv 1'. iilair, now 
practising law in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Blair 
has been widely connected with literary societies, 
particularh in Washington and New Hampshire. 
She was a trustee of the New Hampshire State 
Normal School, and is a trustee of the Garfield 
National Hospital, Washington, D. C-, and Blair 
tower on the building was named in her honor. 
She is connected with tiie Woman's Relief Corps, 
has done much work on the ladies' auxiliary board 
of Elliot Hospital. Mrs. Blair is the author of 
the novel " 'Lisbeth W^ilson, a Daughter of the 
New Hampshire Hills," published in 1894 by 
Lee iS: Sheuard, wiiich has been widely read. 



SLAVERY was not unknown in Londonderry 
before the Revolution. According to the 
census of 1773 there were twelve male and thir- 
teen female slaves in the town, and thev seem 
to have been regarded as chattels, not as human 
beings, although they were humanely treated. 
Rev. William Davidson, minister of the East 
Parish, owned two, a mother ami a daughter, 
named Poll and Moll. In the West Parish, 
Thomas Wallace and Deacon James Thomp- 
son, both very devout men, were slave owners. 
It is related of a negro boy named Tonev, who 
was the property of Mr. Wallace and who had 
cost his master one hundred dollars, that he 
was ver\- proud of his money value. Once in 
the spring freshet he built a raft and went to ride 
on the Howetl meadow of the fourteen-acre meadow 
brook. tlis frail craft, not being solidly made, 
began to go to pieces, and Toney, having in view 
both his own life and his master's property, shouted 
to Mr. Wallace: "Come and sax'c \oLn' hundred 
dollars." Soon after the Revolution slavery ceased 
in most of the northern states, and there is no 
record of slaves being owned in Londonderry after 
the beginning of the present century. 



HON. MOODY CURRIER. 



M' 



BY HENRY M. BAKER. 

)()I)\' CURRIER is cnipliaticallv a self- tin- spring- of 1S41 Mr. Currier went to Manches- 

iiKule man. \W liis own in(Uistr\' and econ- ter and was admitted to the liar of I lillshoioiiLili 

omv he raised himself from the country school to county. For several years he i)ractiscd law with 

colleije honors, from poverty to wealth, from oh- success, occasionallv writina^ upon current and 

scuritv to distmction in business, politics, and literary topics for newspapers and ma<^azines. A 

letters, from a humble station to the hiorhest office financial business life had manv allurements for 
of our state. Moodv 



Currier was born in 
Boscawen, N. H., 
April 22, 1806. His 
earl y v e a r s w e r e 
passed on a farm. 
There he became in- 
ured to work and 
learned that nothing 
of value is secured 
without toil. That 
is the secret of his 
successful life. Amid 
the busv scenes of 
active farminsj he 
])ursued the studies 
])rcparatorv to col- 
le<re. He had no idle 
time — for him there 
were no leisure hours. 
K\ery moment was 
given to work or 
studv. He graduated 
with high honors 
from Dartmouth 
College in 1834, de- 
livering the Greek 
oration. His alma 
mater and another 
college have conferred upon him the degree of the state 




HON. MOODY CURRIER. 



him, and he aban- 
doned the law for 
linance. His distin- 
guished career in 
connection with the 
Amoskeag bank, the 
.\moskeag Savings 
bank, the Amoskeag 
National bank, and 
P e o p 1 e "s S a \' i n g s 
bank, is the historv 
ot the great pros- 
jieritv of those sev- 
eral institutions. As 
a financier his repu- 
tiition is une(|ualled 
in New Hampshire. 
He has been con- 
nected with many of 
the business enter- 
prises of his citv and 
state, and has large 
interests in their 
manufactures and 
railroads. 

His fellow-citi/ens 
have bestowed upon 
him nearlv all the 



prominent offices of 
As senator, president of the senate, 
Doctor of Laws. After graduation Mr. Currier councillor, and governor, In- not onlv justified the 
for several years was in charge of the Academy at expectations of his friends, but conferred honor 
Hopkinton, N. H., and later of the High School upon the slate. His administration as governor 
at Lowell, Mass. As a teacher he was thorough in 1885 and 1886 was so successful and dignified 
and successful. No subject was left une.xhaustcxl that it will long be remembered bv the people with 
and by his own t'nthusiasm he aroused the zeal (>( gratitude and pride as a model of good govern- 
his pupils. Ill- devoted all his spare time to the ment. His state papers and public speeches de- 
study c^f law. In this manner, bv continuous a]i- serve to rank as classics. For elegant expression, 
plication, he fitted himself for his profession. In polished style and fitness for the occasion, his 




address acce])linL;' in lirhalf of tlic statr iIk- statue 
of Daniel Webster iias never been e.xeelled. His 
various proclamations, though without formalism 
or dosrmatism, were religious in tone and moral in 
senlinii-nl. and were expressed in language which 
is poetry itself. A well-known writer has said : 
" His early culture, his poetic taste, his experience 
of life, the meditations of his mature years, have 
enabled him to give to New Ilampshire a series of 
official utteianees of surprising appropriateness, 
beautv, and grace." 

(rovernor Currier is not tjnlv a distinguished 
classical scholar, but is learned in the literature 
and jtroticient in man\- of the languages of modern 
Europe. I lis translations are models of accuracy 
and beauty of expression. His pure English 
serves to express the finest thoughts of the most 
famous writers. Vvw lixing Americans, who have 
won eminent success in public life, possess such 
discriminating literary taste and talent as (Governor 
Curlier. His scientific studies, his researches into 
the history of ancient religions and modern theol- 
ogy, anti the solution of manv of the deep problems 
of life, have led him to abandon nearlv all the 
mystical teachings which have perplexed humanity 
and shut the light of truth from human compre- 
hension. \'et his failh in a Supreme Being, who 
■' is all in all," gr(iws brighter as the vears fade. 
This is illustrati-d b\' the following lines from one 
of his poems : 

Eternal in Cri.il has the universe slood : 

Eternal the stars and the sun : 
And the boundless regions of hght and of space 

Are filled by tlie Infinite One. 

Eternal in him are the fountains of love ; 

Nor has aught that exists e'er begiui ; 
Eternal is life, eternal is love : 

Eternal the Infinite One. 

Mr. Currier has expressed his idea of the 
presence of the Eternal so beautifully in one of 
his later poems, that it is here reproduced to illus- 
trate his poetic genius and religious feelings. 

THK. liTERNAL ONE. 

O tell ine, man of sacred lore, 
Where dwells the Being you adore .'' 




And where, O man of thought profound. 
Where can the Eternal One be found ? 
Throughout the realms of boundless space 
We seek in vain His dwelling place. 

He dwells where'er the beams of light 
Have pierced the primal gloom of night : 
Beyond the planet's feeble ray : 
Beyond the comet's devious way ; 
Where'er amid the realms afar 
Shines light of sun or twinkling star. 
Above, below, and all around 
Th' encircling arms of God are found. 
Where'er the pulse of life may beat 
His forming hand and power we meet. 
While every living germ of earth 
'I'hat sinks in death or springs to birth 
Is but a part of that great whole 
Whose life is God, and (iod the soul. 
From plant to man, l.ielow, above. 
The power divine still throbs in love. 



He is the life that glows and warms 

In tiniest mote of living forms. 

Which quick'ning nature brings to birth, 

To float in air or sink in earth. 

And every shrub, and plant, and flower. 

That lives an age or blooms an hour. 

Has just as much of God within 

As human life or seraphim : 

For all that bloom and all that shine 

Are only forms of life di\'ine. 

And every ray that streaks the east. 

And every beam that paints the west. 

With every trembling gleam of light. 

With every gloom that shades the night. 

Are but the trailing robes divine 

Of one whose garments e\er shine. 



The human soul may bend in love 
And seek for blessings from above, 
As well in busy haunts of men. 
In forest gloom, in silent glen. 
As in the altar's solemn shade, 
Beneath the domes that men have made 
As well may seek a Father's love, 
And ask assistance from above, 
Amid the ocean's solemn roar, 
Or on its barren waste of shore, 
As in some distant promised land. 
Where sacred fanes and temples stand. 
The soul that beats in sweet attune 
Finds in himself the F^ternal One : 
Nor needs to seek for other shrine 
Than God's great temples all divine. 



OLIVER E. BRANCH, 



OLIVER E. BRANCH was horn in Madi- of questions of law in both state and federal courts, 
son, O., July 19, 1S47. His paternal "rand- In 1883 he moved to Weare to engage in literary- 
father served seven years in Washington's com- work, soon V)ecoming active in local politics and 
mand, from whom he received a " l)adge of merit" being elected to the legislature in 1886. During 
signed by Washington on the disbanding of the the session of 1887 Mr. Branch became widely 
Continental army. His nK^thcr was Lucy J. known, and his reputation as lawyer and orator 

was established by his 
remarkable speeches 
on the " Ha/.cn bill." 
He was a member of 
the judiciary commit- 
tee. Re-elected in 
1888, he was tin- 
candidate of his party 
for speaker, and dur- 
ing the session of 
1889 he was again 
upon the judiciary 
committee and added 
to his reputation by 
his efTorts on the 
floor, particularly by 
his advocacy of the 
" Australian Ballot " 
hill, which he then 
introduced. In the 
fall of 1889 he re- 
sumed the practice 
of law in Manchester 
and has had a large 
and lucrative client- 
age, being engaged 
in the most impor- 
tant causes that have 
been tried in the cen- 
tral part of the state, 
victories. As counsel for 



Bartram, a native of 
Connecticut and a 
descendant of Roger 
Williams. His father 
was Hon. William 
W. Branch, for many 
years a judge of the 
court of common 
])leas, and prominent 
in the early history 
of railroads in north- 
ern Ohio. Mr. 
Branch was of a 
family of nine chil- 
tlren, born on a farm 
and trained in the 
school of industry 
and self-reliance. 
IIa\ing finished his 
preparatory studies at 
Whitestown (N. V.) 
S e m i n a r \' , from 
which he graduated 
in 1868, he entered 
Hamilton College 
the following year 
and graduated with 
the finest record of 
the class of 1873, 




OLIVER E. IIRAXCH. 



the three 

oration prizes. After two years as principal of achieving many signa 

the Forestville (N. V.) Free .Xcademv ami I'nion the Boston & Maine and Manchester cSc Lawrence 

School, he entered Columbia College Law School, railroads he has secured a wide reputation. In 

taking the two years' course in one, and graduat- the argument of questions of law he has no e(]ual 

ing in 1876 with the degree of LL. B. He then in the state, and is in the front rank of jury 

taught one year in the Brooklyn Polytechnic lawyers. Mr. Branch is a gentleman of fine 

Institute, and in 1878 joined his brother in the scholarly antl musical tastes and literary accom- 

practice of law in New \'ork city. 'I'he fn ni did |)lishments. As an orator he is particularly bril- 

an extensive business, and Mr. Branch was pushed liant, and his command of graceful language is as 

to the front in the trial of causes and arguments remarkable as it is pleasing. He received the 
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degree of master of arts from Hamilton College 
in 1876, and the same degree was conferred upon 
him by Dartmouth in 1895. In 1894 he was 
appointed United States district attorney for New 
Hampshire. He was influential in establishing 
the Congregational church at North Weare, where 
he resides in summer. In winter he occupies his 
pleasant home on Prospect street, Manchester, and 
is a regular attendant of the Franklin-Street 
church. Mr. Branch was married to Miss Sarah C. 
Chase of Weare in 1878, and has a family of three 
sons and one daughter : Oliver Winslow, born 
Oct. 4, 1879; Dorothy Witter, born Dec. 6, 1881 ; 
Frederick William, born Sept. 18, 1886, and Ran- 
dolph Wellington, born Nov. 26, 1890. 




T^HE FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE in Nutfield 
* was built in 1723. It was of logs, and was 
onlv sixteen feet by twelve, but it afforded accom- 
modations for the twenty odd pupils. Robert 
Morrison was one of the first, if not the first 
teacher. The building was situated on the com- 
mon, near the meeting-house. In i 725, _^'36 4s. was 
appropriated for schools. In 1727 the town 
" votted to build a school house eighteen feet long 
besides the chimney — that there should be two 
fireplaces m one end, as large as the house will 
allow — to be seven ioot in the side in height — 
of logs — to be built at the meeting house." These 
specifications may not seem very definite, but 
doubtless they were understood by the contractor. 



CDWIN THOMAS BALDWIN, whose name 
L-* is such a familiar and honored one in the 
musical circles of New Hampshire, and even far 
beyond its borders, was born in New Ipswich 
July 9, 1832. The following year his father re- 
moved to Nashua, then the busiest town in the 
state, and there the subject of tiiis sketch i)assed 
most of his childhood years. His studies were 
pursued in both public and private schools in 
Nashua and Manchester, and even in later years, 
after taking up his residence in the latter city in 
185 1, he divided his time between these two 
places because of his close identification with the 
musical enterprises of both. Of musical taste and 



abilit\- he inherited a double portion, for his 
mother, youngest daughter of Thomas Moore of 
Nashua, was possessed of a good degree of talent 
in this direction, while his father, although an 
energetic business man, devoted many leisure hours 
to the pursuit of music and encouraged the devel- 
opment of it in his young son. Lessons began at 
an early age, and under most competent instructors, 
first of the piano-forte, and afterward of the organ 
and harmony. I'rominent among these instructors 
were Edward A. Hosmer and George J. Webb of 
Boston. From a very small boy he was full of 
enthusiasm for a brass band, and has, since the 
days when he so persistently followed them about 
the streets of the city, himself played all sorts of 
instruments and drilled and led many such organi- 
zations. At the breaking out of the Civil War in 
1861, he and most of the members of his band 
enlisted as ])rivates in Company C, First N. H. 
Regiment, and "Baldwin's Cornet Band" was the 
first to leave the state, and the first to play in the 
streets of Baltimore after the attack upon the Mas- 
sachusetts Sixth had so nearly annihilated its Lowell 
band. In 1861 Mr. Baldwin married Miss Sarah C. 
Kendrick of Nashua, by whom he had two sons 
and one daughter, to whom he in turn tian^mitted 
the love of music which he had himself inherited. 
Edwin K. I5akhvin, the elder son, is now a well- 
known t)rganist and choir master in Lowell, Mass., 
as well as a successful business man, and Thomas 
C. Baldwin, tlie younger son, who died Sept. 3, 
1890, was much sought after in musical circles as 
a violinist and singer, being also widely known as 
one of the chief promoters of the \'. P. S. C. E. 
in the stale. The daughter is married and 
is now li\'ing in Ouincy, Mass. As a teacher 
Mr. Baldwin has always been in the front rank, 
and from the exceedinglv large class of [uipils 
which always surrounds him, he has sent out many 
who have an enviable reputation as pianists and 
organists. His recitals are anticipated I)\' music 
lovers as most enjoyable occasions where only the 
best of music will be heard and that conscientiously 
interpreted aiul creditably performed. As a com- 
poser, especially of selections for church choirs, he 
is also well and favorablv known. As a director 
of choral classes and societies he early demon- 
strated a peculiar fitness, and many have cause to 





thank him for their intiDdiiclion to the- sjreat 
oratorio works and tor tlic toundation ol a tastt- 
for choral harmonics. He has always sustained an 
ortjanized chorus in the church where he was 
engaged, and in foinier years was leader of large 
city choruses in both Nashua and Manchester, 
notahlv those participating in the great peace 
jubilee in Boston. lie proved his devotion to the 
cause bv asking no 
remuneration save 
the faithful and en- 
thusiastic pursuit of 
the task in hand bv 
those whom he led. 
Mr. Baldwin is keenly 
alive to any note 
of progress, only ask- 
ing to try new spirits 
to determine of what 
manner they may be, 
and is a man abreast 
of the times in both 
])ractical and musical 
affairs. In a recent 
trip across the Atlan- 
tic he made a special 
sludv of the music 
in the English cathe- 
drals and on the con- 
tinent, having en- 
joyed together with 
the musicians with 
whom he travelled 
unusual opportuni- 
ties to see and hear 
famous composers 
and organists, with 
the best of trained 

choirs. Many excellent offers to locate elsewhere 
have been refused by Mr. Baldwin and he seems 
to have decided wisely, f(;r time has not lessened 
his hold upon his position as an esteemed teacher 
and musical authority in this city which now holds 
out inducements to many rivals in the profession. 
To all such Mr. Baldwin extends a readv welcome, 
and all lind liim a true friend and svmpathi/i'r. 
The New Hampshire Music Teachers' Association 
<lected him as their president for three successive 




KDWIN r. BALDWIN. 



terms, and since his resignation of that ofifice he 
has been retained on the official board in some 
other capacity and has contributed largely to the 
success of that organization. Nowhere has Mr. 
Baldwin been more higlih- valued than in the First 
Congregational church of Manchester, probably 
the largest church in the state, where he has for 
nearly forty years been organist and music director, 

and where he has 
ever sought to main- 
tain a dignified and 
worshipful musical 
service. Music has 
always been to him a 
high and sacred art, 
to be intelligentlv 
pursued and n o t 
lightlv treated as 
a pastime, and he 
greatly deplores any 
tendency to debase 
it or to lower the 
standard,especiall\- by 
churches and musical 
organizations. He 
has expressed him- 
self upon this point 
in manv ])ublic utter- 
ances and is every- 
where known as a 
staunch upholder of 
the true and genuine 
in music, as one who 
would educate the 
community, and par- 
ticularly the young, 
to a purity of taste. 
For any musical clap- 
trap, for mere jingling rhymes and tunes, he has a 
distinct aversion and denounces them with no 
uncertain sound. Manchester is to be congratu- 
lated that she has for so many years been the 
chosen home of so cultivated a musician, who is at 
the same time a keen, active, public-spnited citizen. 



BOILED EGGS.— The grave and reverend 
Matthew Clark ate no meat, but was very 
fonil of cirgs. When dining out, if his hostess 





apologized for her hard-huilcd eggs, he would say 
" I'll just soften them with butter." If the apol 
ogy was for soft-boiled eggs, his rc|)lv would be 
" I'll harden them with butter." 



r^HARLES WILLIAM TEMPLE was born 
^-^ in Hyde Park, Vt., July ii, 1846. Coming 
to Manchester in the summer of 1856, he attended 
the public schools for 
two years, and then 
went to work as 
errand boy for Wil- 
liam H. Fisk, remain- 
ing in his employ 
for seventeen years. 
In the summer of 
1875, in compan)' 
with Henry A. Far- 
rington, he jiurchased 
the business of Wil- 
liam H. Fisk, the 
name of the new 
firm being Temple eSi 
Farrington until the 
winter of 1886, when 
the business was in- 
corporated as the 
Temple & Farring- 
ton Company. In 
October, 1895, Mr. 
Temple bought Mr. 
Farrington's entire 
interest in the cor- 
poration, and has 
since conducted 
alone the extensive 
affairs of the house, 
the corporate title 

remaining unchanged. As a jobber and retailer 
of blank books and stationery, watches, clocks, 
and jewelry, wall papers and window shades, he 
has built up a large and flourishing liusiness, and 
the house has become one of the best known 
mercantile establishments in New Hampshire. 
Through the many vicissitudes of twenty years 
Mr. Temple has skilfuUv directed the affairs of the 
firm and achieved a measure of honorable success 
of which any man might well be proud. His place 




CHAKLI..S W. TEMPLE, 



of business at 907, 909, and 91 i Elm street is one 
of the most attractive in Manchester. Mr. Temple 
was married in 1867 to Miss Lucinda L. Chase of 
Manchester, and two sons, Harry C, deceased, 
and Charles A., have l)een added to the family. 

r^APT. THOMAS PATTERSON, grandson 
^—^ of Peter Patterson, one of the early settlers 

of Nutfield, died at 
his home in Lon- 
donderry Oct. 27, 
1869, at the age of 
eighty-three years. 
He was one of the 
strong characters of 
the town, possessing 
marked intlividuality 
and p o si t i veness, 
retaining enough of 
the ancestral brogue 
to grace his Scotch- 
Irish h u m o r. I n 
early life he was one 
of the most noted 
teachers in this part 
of New Hampshire, 
having taught thirty- 
( ) n e t e r m s wit h 
great success, partic- 
ularly in difficult 
schools, and it is said 
that no unruiv young- 
ster ever required a 
second course of his 
peculiar discipline, 
although in the main 
he controlled his 
pupils by firmness 
and kindness, rather than by fear. He lived on 
the farm purchased by his grandfather in 1730, 
filled various offices of trust within the gift of his 
townsmen, and died widely mourned. His widow, 
Hannaii D., daughter of Jolin Duncan, survived 
him only two weeks. His younger brother, 
George W., was elected lieutenant governor of 
New York in 1848, and his elder brother, Peter, 
also held various important public offices iu 
that state. 



ALONZO ELLIOTT. 



ALONZO ELLIOTT, son of Albert and Manchester House, which has succeeded the old 

Adeline Waterman (Blackburn) Elliott, was hostelry of that name, the removal of which to its 

born in Augusta, Me., July 25, 1849. When he present site was an interesting engineering feat, 

was seven vears of age his parents removed and the remodelling of which has been followed 

to Sanbornton Bridge, where he obtained his by a great increase in the popularity of the city 

early education, completing it at the New Ilamp- among the travelling public. Mr. Elliott is presi- 



shire Conference 
S e m i n a r \'. Upon 
leaving school he was 
employed as tele- 
graph operator at 
the station in Tilton, 
and subsequently as 
a clerk in stores at 
C o 1 e b r o o k and 
Wentworth. In 1869 
he settled in Man- 
chester and became 
telegraph operator 
and ticket agent for 
the Concord and the 
Manchester & Law- 
rence railroads, being 
one of the very few 
sound operators of 
that time. This posi- 
tion he held for 
twenty-three years, 
with the reputation 
of being the most 
expert ticket seller on 
the entire line of the 
railroads. Resigning 
in 1893, he went into 
the insurance and 
banking business. 




ALONZO Ei.i.iorr. 



dent of the Manches- 
ter Electric Light 
Company, and takes 
justifiable pride in 
the fact that this city, 
is the best lighted 
municipality in the 
United States. In 
addition to all this 
he is a trustee of the 
Guaranty Savings 
bank, and was one 
of the activ^e pro- 
moters and the first 
treasurer of the 
Elliott Manufactur- 
ing Company, manu- 
facturers of knit 
goods, with a capital 
of $150,000 and em- 
ploying three hun- 
dred hands. He has 
also been interested 
in various other suc- 
cessful business insti- 
tutions ; in fact, the 
locating in Manches- 
ter of many of the 
leading enterprises, 
notably the F. M. 



He was one of the incorporators and the organizer Hoyt Shoe Company, the Eureka Shoe Company, 

of the Granite State Trust Company, now the the Kimball Carriage Company, and the Elliott 

Bank of New England, and is its treasurer. He Manufacturing Company, is due to his efforts, as he 

is also secretary of the Citizens' Building and Loan raised nearly all the capital represented in these 

Association, director and clerk of the People's important industries. In whatever he undertakes 

(iaslight Company, and director of tlu' C.arvin's he is an indefatigal)le worker. His insurance 

Falls Power Company, which proposes to furnish business is extensive, representing as it does 

electric power to Manchester consumers and to twenty-five lire, life, and accident companies. Mr, 

the town of Ilooksett as well. With e.x-Gov. Elliott married, first, Ella R., daughter of Amos 

Weston and John B. \'arick he owns the New Weston, Jr., of Manchester, and niece of ex-Gov. 

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James A. Westun. His second wife was Medora, for a year. He then returned to Boston, to 

daughter of George W. and Sarah (Mead) VVeelcs, pursue the same line of business, which he carried 

her father being a well known shoe dealer of on successfully there until 1875. In that vear he 

Manchester for many \cars. Thev have four came hack to Manchester a second time, and has 

children : Lucille Weeks, aged fourteen ; Laura since resided here, building u]) a large business as 

Medora, aged twelve ; Mildred Weeks, aged five, a dealer in upholstery, paper hangings, drapery, 

and Alonzo, Jr., aged four years. Mr. Elliott is a curtains, embroidery and fancy goods, and achiev- 

member of Trinity Commanderv, Knights Tem- ing a commercial success which has made his name 



plar, and he was a 
charter member of 
the Derryfield Club. 
He attends the Uni- 
tarian church. Few 
men have done more 
than he for his 
adopted city, and his 
beautiful residence, 
Brookhurst, is one of 
the most attractive 
in Manchester. 



RD. GAY, son of 
Benjamin H. 
and Ann D. (Stowe) 
Gay, was horn in 
Hillsboro Oct. 23, 
1838. Receiving his 
education in the 
common schools of 
his native town and 
at Henniker Acad- 
emy, he worked for 
his father, who was 
a tanner, shoemaker, 
and farmer, until he 
became of aafe. In 



a household word in 
the city. When the 
postoffice block was 
built in 1876, he 
rented one of the 
stores and moved 
into it his small 
stock and laid well 
the foundations of 
his subsequent pros- 
perity. With such a 
versatile genius for 
mercantile affairs, 
and with an expe- 
rience in so many 
lines of trade, it is 
not strange that he 
has succeeded. Mr. 
Gay is a director in 
the Two Hundred 
Associates' Real Es- 
tate Company, a 
very successful insti- 
tution with headquar- 
ters at Boston. He 
is a member of 
Lafayette Lodge of 
Masons, t)f the Pil- 
grim Fathers, and of 

1859, with only ten dollars in his pocket, he went Amoskeag Grange, and for four years was a 
to Boston to seek his fortune. Here he was member of the executive committee of the State 
employed two years and a half in a woollen store, Grange, and has attended six sessions of the 
and subsequently became a member of the firm of National Grange. He is an enthusiastic member 
W. B. Ellis & Co., at No. 289 Washington street, of the Ralston Health Club, Washington, D. C. 
This connection lasted until 1869, when he sold Mr. Gay attends the p-irst Congregational church, 
his interest in the firm and removed to Manches- of which body he is a member. Dec. 18, 1862, 
ter to engage in the market and provision business, he was married to Miss Julia F. Blanchard of 
in the firm of O. iS: R. D. Gay, subsequently Gay Washington, N. H. His present place of 
& Davis. Disposing of his interest in the business, business is 72 Hanover street, and his rtsidencc 
he engaged in the grain trade, which he continued 86 Prospect street, Manchester. 




KOHKRl' DUNCAN (JAY. 



HENRY DE WOLFE CARVELLE, M. D. 



HENRY De WOLFE CARVELLE, M. D.. ophthalmic and aural surgeon in New Hampshire, 
was burn in Richmond, N. B., May 26, 1852. and is called to all parts of the state upon difficult 
his parents being James Sherrard and Elizabeth cases. Dr. Carvelle is an Episcopalian, but attends 
(Porter) Carvcll. His mother was of Scotch birth, the Franklin-Street Congregational church. He 
her ancestors coming from a place in Scotland is a member of Wilder Lodge and Washington 
near the home of the immortal Burns. His father Encampment, 1. O. O. F., the Calumet and Elec- 
tric clubs, the Gym- 
nasium, the New 
Hampshire Medical 
Society, the Centre 
District Medical So- 
ciety of Concord, the 
New England Oph- 
thalmological Soci- 
ety of Boston, cen- 
sor of the Medico- 
Chirurgical College 
of Philadelphia, hon- 
orary member of the 
L. Webster !•" o .\ 
Ophthal mological 
Society of Philadel- 
phia, of the ophthal- 
mological section of 
the American Medi- 
cal Association, and 
of the Pan-American 
Medical Congress. 
He has taken various 
special courses in the 
diseases of the eye 
and ear in New York. 
In icSS; he spent 
several months in the 
Roval London Opii- 
thalmic Hospital and 

Edward Waldo Elmerson in his practice for a few in the eye and ear clinics in Paris. He is ophthal- 
inonths, residing at the house of Ralj)!! Waldo mic and aural surgeon of the IClliot Hospital and 
Emerson, the latter's father, where his associations of Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital and medical 
with the distinguished familv were e.xceedinglv examiner for the Northwestern Life Insurance 
delightful. After leaving college Dr. Carvelle Company. He married Anna Brewster Sullivan, 
settled in Boston for a short time, but soon daughter of Jt)hn and Arianna (Whittemore) Sul- 
reinoved to Manchester. He continued in gen- livan of Suncook, on May 5. 1893, and they have 
eral practice till 1884, since which time he has (jnc daughter. Euphrosyne Parepa, born May 16, 
devoted himself to treatment of the eye and 1894. His wife is a granddaughter of the late 
ear. As a specialist he ranks high, being the lirst Hon. Aaron Whittemore of Pembroke. 

271 



was English, de- 
scended from an old 
family whose ances- 
trv dated back to 
the time of W^illiam 
the Conqueror, and 
his great-grandfather 
fought in the Revolu- 
tion on the British 
side. Dr. Carvelle 
graduated fiom the 
Richmond high 
school, and in 1873 
entered the Boston 
Eye and Ear Infirm- 
arv as medical at- 
tendant, remaining 
t h e r e t w o y ears. 
During the second 
vear he pursued his 
studies under the 
guidance of Dr. Al- 
bert N. Blodgett, 
superintendent of the 
institution. In 1875 
he entered the Har- 
vard Medical School 
and graduated in 
1878. During his last 
vear he assisted Dr. 




HFNRV DE WOI.KE CARVELLE. NL D. 




JOHN McNEIL was the first settler in Man- 
chester at the Amoskeaq- Falls, being em- 
ployed there bv the town of Londonderry to ferry 
the townspeople to and from the islands on their 
fishing trips. He was six feet six inches tall, had 
the strength of a Samson, and was the champion 
wrestler in all this section of New Hampshire. 
His great-grandson, Gen. John McNeil, who was 
of about the same height and proportions, distin- 
guished himself at the battles of Chippewa and 
Niagara in the war of 1812, and at the latter 
engagement was wounded in the knee by a grape- 
shot which crippled him for life. In 1830 Presi- 
dent Jackson appointed him surveyor of the port 
of Boston, and he held that office until his death in 




1850. Gen. John A. Dix, in his memoirs, relates 
this anecdote of Gen. McNeil : At the June ses- 
sions of the New Hampshire legislature, Gen. 
McNeil was a familiar figure. He delighted in 
standing alxuit the state house grounds on those 
occasions to <rreet his friends and converse with 
them on current topics. One day a little fellow, 
about five feet tall, was introduced to him by a 
friend. In (;rder to start a conversation the man 
said to him : " General, how did you become 
lame?" The general was nettled. Straightening his 
tall form to its full height, he looked down on the 
little man and replied: "I fell down a barn cellar, 

you d n fool ! Didn't you ever read the history 

of vour country ? " 





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k£ol. Danie! F. +{c^lt(. 
Sbefiff of -HillgboKo Gounty. 



Thom&b fiobbs. 



SHKRII-F HE.-\LY .\'SD .M ANCHtb lliR DKPUTIES. 



HON, FREDERICK SMYTH, 



HON. FREDERICK SMYTH was born in streets with gas, and the establishment of a free 

Canclia March 9, 18 19, and his early years library. His recommendation of a ])ublic library 

were spent on his father's farm. His education was somewhat in advance of popular senti- 

was received in the common schools of his native ment, the city government being composed of 

town, supplemented bv a short course at Phillips men who had little faith in the value or necessity 

.Andover Academy, and with a view to pursuing a of literary culture, but the plan was finally carried 



college course he 
taught school several 
w inters. C i r c u in- 
stances, however, in- 
duced him to relin- 
quish this plan, and 
after working for a 
while in a store at 
Candia; he ^went to 
Manchester and en- 
tered the employ of 
George Porter, who 
carried on a general 
merchandise business 
on Elm street, sub- 
sequentlv becoming 
a partner. This con- 
nection lasted until 
1849, when his long 
official career began. 
In that Ticar he was 
elected citv clerk, 
and So popular was 
he in this capacity 
tliat lie was re-elected 
the following year, 
although two-thirds 
of the members of 
the city government 

were opposed to him was also a director 

politically. In 185 i he was again chosen to the in the United States Agricultural Society, and was 
same office. Ilis service as city clerk was followed manager of the three great fairs held at Richmcnid, 
by three terms as mayor of Manchester, being Chicago, and St. Louis. He was also vice-presi- 
elected in 1852 and re-elected in '53 and '54. He dent of the American Pomological Society. These 
urged various reforms and was instrumental in varied activities brought him favorably to the 
their execution. Among measures advocated by attention of the people throughout the State, and 
liim were the construction of sidewalks, the intro- he received some votes in the convention which 
duction of a system olF water-works, the planting of nominated Ichabod Goodwin for governor. In 
shade trees in the streets and parks, the strict en- 1861 he was apjiointed one of the agents on the 
forcement of school attendance, the lighting of the part of the United States to attend the inter- 
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i;ON. IRKDERICK S.MVTH. 



out, and the library 
is an enduring monu- 
ment to the name of 
Mayor Smyth. After 
the close of his term 
of office he was ap- 
pointed chairman\)f 
the commission to 
locate and build the 
Industrial School. 
This institution was 
very unpopular at 
the time, but he was 
its staunch advocate, 
and has lived to see 
his views vindicated. 
He was early a Whig, 
and always since a 
Republican in poli- 
tics. In 1857-58 Mr. 
Sm\th was a mem- 
ber of the legislature 
from Ward 3. About 
the same time he was 
elected treasurer of 
the New Flampshire 
Agricultural Societv, 
holding the position 
for ten ^ears. He 




national exhibition at London, where he was 
chosen a juror. It was mainly through his efforts 
that the exhibits there of the Langdon mills and 
the Manchester Print Works were recognized and 
received medals. After returning home he devoted 
his time to the banks with which he was connected 
and taking active part in measures calculated to 
strengthen faith in the national administration. 
He went to the front after the battles of Gettys- 
burg and the Wilderness and gave efficient aid in 
caring for the sick and wounded. In the same 
year he was for the fourth time elected mayor of 
Manchester, and practically without opposition. 
The following year (1865) he was chosen governor 
of the state by a majority of more than 6,000, 
the highest given to any candidate for nearly a 
quarter of a century. His administration was 
eminentlv successful. The state debt, which here- 
tofore had seldom exceeded a few thousand dollars, 
had risen to millions, and loans had to be made in 
competition with other states and with the na- 
tional government. State bonds were hard to sell 
at any price; but notwithstanding these difficulties 
within three months after his inauguration. Gov- 
ernor Smyth had raised over a million dollars, largely 
through personal solicitation and mostly from the 
Manchester banks, and the result was that the 
credit of the state was firmly re-established. In 
1866 he was unanimously renominated in I lie 
Republican convention for governor and was 
again elected by a handsome majority. During 
his first term as governor he was made one of the 
corporate trustees of the national homes for invalid 
soldiers and served with General Grant, Jay 
Cooke, General Butler, and others on the commit- 
tee whose duty it was to arrange the details. 
During his second term the first steps were taken 
toward tfie foundation of a state agricultural 
college, a measure which he warmly advocated. He 
has been treasurer of the college for twenty-five 
years. He also urged the restocking of the 
streams of the state with fish, a purpose which 
more recent legislative action has carried into 
effect. In 1866 he was chosen by congress one of 
the managers of the military homes and was later 
made vice-president of the board. In 1872 
he was a delegate at large to the Repui)- 
lican national convention, and was also a 




member of the state constitutional convention. 
President Hayes appointed Mr. Smvth honorarv 
commissioner to the international exposition at 
Paris in 1878, and while abroad he visited many 
European countries. He subsequently went to 
Europe a number, of times, and also travelled 
extensively in jtbis country and in Mexico and 
Cuba. He is trustee of the New England Con- 
servatory of Music in Boston, in which he founded 
a scholarship. Dartmouth College conferred upon 
him the degree of A. M. in 1866. 

Besides his numerous other financial interests. 
Governor Smyth was president and one of the 
heavy stockholders of the Concord and Montreal 
railroad. When the question arose of leasing the 
road to the Boston and Maine, he was strongly 
opposed to the plan, and while it is not improbable 
that he would have vielded to the pressure of 
events in voting for the lease as at present con- 
summated, his illness has prevented his taking anv 
part in the transaction. Generous and benevolent 
in a high degree, he gave cheerfullv of his abun- 
dance, and his public charities have been large. 
He succeeded tiie late Hon. George W. Nesmith 
as president of the New Hampshire Orphans' 
Home on the Welister place at Franklin. He 
was president of the Franklin-Street Congrega- 
tional Societv in Manchester for nineteen vears, 
resigning that position in 1S94, and is a member 
of that church, taking deep interest in its work. 

Governor Smvth was twice married, in 1844 
tt> Miss Emily Lane, daughter of Jt)hn Lane of 
Candia. Mrs. Smyth died in 1884, and the follow- 
ing year, while in Scotlanti, he married Miss 
Marion Hamilton Cossar, a Manchester lady 
visiting there. As this book goes to press he is at 
his beautiful Manchester home, The Willows, suf- 
fering from the first serious and continued illness 
of his long and exceedingly busy life. 



WILLIAM D. BUCK, M. D., was born in 
Williamstown, Vt., March 25, 1812. In 
1818 his parents moved to Lebanon, N. H. Here 
he attended the common schools of the time, and 
by the exercise of will power and aided by his 
vigorous intellect he made rapid progress in his 
studies. Not being able to take a collegiate 





M^(?f>TEX- vV-ToDate 





course, he went, at an earlv period, to Concord and 
engaged in the occupation of carriage painter with 
Downing & Sons. While at work here he became 
interested in the science of music and was for 
nianv years instructor, conductor and organist in 
tlie South Congregational Church at Concord, 
and afterward at the Hanover-Street Church, 
Manciiester. He familiarized himself with stan- 
dard writers and retained through life his love for 
Handel, Beethoven, and Mozart. His attention 
being drawn to the medical profession, he deter- 
mined to fit himself for its practice, and by teach- 
ing music was enabled to defray the greater part 
of the expense of the studv of medicine. He 
went into it with great enthusiasm, and his subse- 
(juent career showed his natural fitness for this 
profession. 

He began the studv of medicine with Tini- 
othv Haines, M. D., of Concord ; attended a 
course of lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and also 
took the course at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York, where he graduated in 1842. 
lie began the practice of his profession with Dr. 
Chadbourne, in Concord, in 1842, and there remained 
for four vears, when, desiring to perfect his medi- 
cal knowledge, he visited London and Paris, where 
he became acquainted with manv (hstinguished 
men in tiie jirofcssion and spent much time in the 
hos])itals of those cities. He also visited Italy, 
gaining much information and making a favorable 
impression upon those with whom he came in 
contact. After an absence of one year he returned 
and made Manchester his home, and here, with 
the exception of one year spent in California, he 
lived until his death. 

Dr. Buck sustained an enviable reputation as 
a physician and surgeon, possessing the confidence 
of the community in which he lived, and was early 
resrarded as one of the leading medical men of the 
state. He reached this high position in his pro- 
fession without the aid of wealth or social position. 
His success was due to hard study and close appli- 
cation to his business, accompanied by a zeal and 
devotion rarely surpassed. He was unmindful of 
riches, jiublic honor, or^nvthing wiiich he thought 
might interfere with the one great pursuit of his 
life. Dr. Buck possessed an active mind and a 
retentive memorv, and was a thorough scholar. He 



seemed to know his own ])owers, and this gave 
him great influence over students in medicine. 
In his intercourse with his professional brethren 
Dr. Buck was always courteous and obliging, 
religiously regarding the rules of medical eti- 
quette, and in his consultations he always gave the 
patient the benefit of his best skill and extensive 
practice. He made it a point of honor to be 
prompt to his engagements. In his example and 
practice he honored the profession to which he 
had devoted the best years of his life, and did 
much to dignify and elevate the standard of medi- 
cal education. Dr. Buck was a prominent mem- 
ber of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and 
was elected its president in 1866. His papers read 
before this society were always listened to with 
marked attention. For twenty years he had a 
large experience in teaching medicine, proving 
himself devoted and faithful as an instructor. His 
office or dissecting room were uncomfortable 
places for lazy students, and he had little patience 
with a young man who would not use his brains. 
Dr. Buck was frequently called as a medical ex- 
pert in many of the most important civil and 
criminal cases in the state. A distinguished ad- 
vocate at the bar in New Hampshire said of Dr. 
Buck: " By his clearness of description of all im- 
portant facts to which he was called in legal in\es- 
tigations, he had the confidence of courts, the jurv, 
and the legal profession to an extent equal to, if 
not above, that of anv physician and surgeon in 
New England. He made no displav of learning, 
but used plain English, so that a jurv might com- 
prehend." 

Bleeding, calomel, and antimony, the three 
most i)otent remedies of the fathers, he rarely 
used. An experience of thirty years only strength- 
ened his convictions against their use, and he had 
independence of mind enough to resist a mode of 
treatment which the medical world had made 
fashionabli-, if not imjierative. In the surgical 
department of his profession Dr. Buck excelled in 
his treatment of fractures, and in it his mechanical 
ingenuity was of great service. He took pride in 
putting up a fractured limb. The glue bandage, 
which he described in an address before the society 
in 1866, was original with him, and a favorite 
remark of his was that " a man should carry his 





splints in his head rather tlian under his arm." 
In puHtics he was a Republiean. Dr. Buclv Hved a 
consistent Christian life. Me died Jan. 9, 1872, 
suddenly, and in the midst of an active practice. 
Dr. Buck was twice married, his first wife 
being Grace Low of Concord, who died in 1836. 
In 1859 he married Mary W. Nichols of Manches- 
ter, who is now living. He left no chiklren. 



HON. JOHN HOSLEV was born in Han- 
cock Mav 12, 1826, one of the nine children 
of Samuel and Sophia (Wilson) Hosley. His an- 
cestors came from England and on his mother's 
side are traced back to 1640, when Rev. John 
Wilson settled at the head of Wilson's lane in 
Boston. He was a lineal descendant of Gov. John 
Winthrop. His great grandfather, James Hosley, 
was a prominent official of Townsend, Mass., in 
1775, and was captain of the "alarm list" who 
marched to the defence of Cambridge. Later he 
was captain of a company which marched to the 
assistance of Gen. Gates at Saratoga. After the 
Revolution James Hosley moved to Hancock, 
N. H., and the same farm lie occupied was handed 
down to John Hosley. 

He worked on the farm and obtamed what 
little education he could until lie was twenty years 
of age, when he came to Manchester and went to 
work as a shoe cutter for Moses Fellows, the 
fourth mayor of the city. In 1849 he began work 
as a weaver in the Amoskeag mills, but two years 
later the Sfold excitement carried him to California, 
where he remained two years. On returning he 
went into the grocery business. Next he became 
an overseer in the Amoskeag mills and remained 
in that position till 1865. 

He was a member of the common council in 
1856-57, member of the school board in 1861-62, 
and an alderman in 1863, '64, '71, '81, and '82. 
Upon the death of Mayor Daniels in 1865, Alder- 
man Hosley was chosen to fill the mayoralty chair. 
The next year he was elected as the citizens' can- 
didate for mayor over Joseph B. Claik, Republi- 
can. He was also city tax collector in 1875 and 
1876. In 1886 he was again elected mayor. In 
1865 he was a delegate to the national union con- 
vention, which met in Philadelphia. 



Mr. Hosley was a gentleman of the old school, 
strictly honest and conscientious in all his ])ublic 
and private dealings. That he was so often called 
to fill important public offices emphasizes the fact 
that he was a true descendant of the hardy race of 
pioneers, inheriting the cool judgment and ability 
of his ancestors. To this class of men Manches- 
ter owes a heavy debt that can be paid only by 
continuous efforts for legitimate progress and 
growth on the lines laid down by John Hosley and 
his compatriots. He stepped from the ranks of 
workers to the helm at the instance of those who 
knew his worth, and filled each position to the 
city's honor. Reliance upon the men whose in- 
dustry had made her great is one of the city's 
strongest points. 

Mr. Hosley married, in 1854, Dorothea H., 
daughter of Samuel and Cornelia Jones of Weare. 
They had one daughter, Marian J., the wife of 
Dr. William M. Parsons of Manchester. Mr. 
Hosley was a Unitarian by belief, a member of 
Hillsborough Lodge, I. O. O. F., and of Lafayette 
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and also a Knight Tem- 
plar. He died March 24, 1890. 



WILLIAM M. PARSONS, M. D., son of 
Jtjsiah and Judith (Badger) Parsons, was 
born in Gilmanton Dec. 30, 1826. He was the 
seventh of nine children, among whom was one 
other doctor, Joseph R., and one lawyer, Daniel J. 
All the others were teachers. His father was a 
lieutenant in the war of 1812, and his grandfather 
was a Revolutionary pensioner. On his father's 
side he is descended from Joseph Parsons, who 
was born in England and came to this country in 
July, 1626, and settled in Nortiiampton, Mass. 
His mother was a descendant of Gen. Joseph 
Badger, a ])rominent officer of the Revolution. 
Among other ancestors were Rev. William Par- 
sons and Rev. Joseph Parsons, both graduates of 
Harvard, and on his mother's side, Hon. Joseph 
Badger and Hon. William Badger, governor of 
New Hampshire in 1834-36. Dr. Parsons attended 
the common schools and Gilmanton Academy, 
and began the study of medicine with Dr. Nahum 
Wight of Gilmanton. He remained with him 
three years, at the same time attending a course of 









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lectures at Dartnioutli Medical Ct)llege. He then 
began to practice with his brother, Dr. Joseph B. 
Parsons, with whom he remained until 1855, 
having in the meantime attended a final course of 
lectures at the Vermont Medical College, from 
which he received his diploma in June, 185 i. In 
November, 1882, he married Marian J., only daugh- 
ter of Hon. John and Dorothea (Jones) Ilosley of 
Manchester. They have one child, Martha S., 
born April 30, 1884. In 1855 his brother sold his 
practice to him and moved to Haverhill, Mass. 
Dr. William practiced in Bennington nine years, 
enjoving a wide country clientage ; in Antrim 
fifteen years, and in April, 1873, came to Man- 
chester, where he has since conducted a large and 
lucrative practice. In 1861 he was appointed by 
the governor as chairman of a commission for the 
extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle 
which was prevalent at the time. He achieved 
great success in this capacitv. In 1883 he was 
appointed assistant surgeon of the First Regiment, 
New Hampshire National Guard, and in 1884 was 
promoted to the office of surgeon, with the rank 
of major. 

In religious belief he is a Quaker, and is also 
a member of the Masons, 32", of the Odd Fellows, 
Knights of Honor, and Elks. He represented the 
town of Bennington in the state legislature of 
1871-72. In his practice, extending over forty-five 
years. Dr. Parsons has won an enviable reputation 
as a phvsician and surgeon. A very large number 
of students have begun successful careers in his 
office. He enjoys a wide ac(|uaintance profession- 
ally and socially, has a love for the beauties of 
nature, which takes him to the woods every hunt- 
ing season, and has a large capacitv for enjoying 
life while still in the harness as a skilled physician 
and surgeon. Mrs. Parsons is a home-loving 
woman of strong intellectuality and benevolence, 
^ and their life is a fitting sequence to the thrift ami 
hardship of their worthy ancestors. 



REV. THOMAS A. DORION, pastor of St. 
Jean's Methodist Episcopal Church in Man- 
chester, and an indefatigable worker for the con- 
version of French Catholics to Protestantism, was 
born in St. Andrews, P. O., in 1849, being a 
descendant of one of the oldest French Protestant 



families in Canada. For several years he studied 
at Pointe-aux-Trembles, and having learned the 
printer's trade he founded, in 1874, a newspaper 
near his native town which is still published. In 
1877 he became a local preacher in the Methodist 
Church of Canada, and after four years of theo- 
logical studies and probation, was ordained to the 
ministry at the session of the Montreal Confer- 
ence held in Kingston. He had been married, in 
1 87 1, to Miss Marie Elzear Denault, a niece of the 
fifth Roman Catholic bishop of Ouebec. Mr. 




REV. THOMAS A. DORION. 

Dorion was stationed as pastor of Methodist 
churches in Longueuil, Danville, and Sherbrooke, 
Canada, and for two years, pending the time when 
the Methodist Church in the United States would 
be ready to begin its mission work among the 
French Canadians in New England, he was at- 
tached to the Congregational Church in Ware, 
Ma.ss. In 1889, when the New Flampshire Con- 
ference decided to begin missionary labors in this 
direction, Mr. Dorion was appointed to Manches- 
ter. He has built up a well organized French 
Methodist Episcopal church in the city where, si.x 
years ago, there was not even the nucleus of a 





congregation. The i)rcscnt churcli membership 
of forty-five does not show all the work that has 
been accomplished, for during the six years of Mr. 
Dorion's ministry the church has had seventy 
members. French Canadians are constantly mov- 
ing from one place to another, and there are today, 
with the exception of the pastor's family, only four 
names on the rolls of the church of persons who 
joined when it was organized. 

Being an old newspaper man, he brought his 
practical knowledge of the business into the min- 
istry and has for years, at a great sacrifice of 
strength and time, issued many tracts, papers, and 
books intended to convert Catholics to Protest- 
antism. He publishes a little French Sunday 
school weekly, the only paper of its kind on the 
continent, and also a monthly journal. He has 
also translated into French the Methodist catechisms 
and discipline, and has written a history of the 
lives of the Popes from a Protestant standpoint, 
and a small work entitled : " Romanism and the 
Gospel." During the year 1894 he published over 
half a million pages of religious tracts and Sunday 
school literature. Mr. Dorion is a most eloquent 
and impressive speaker in his native tongue. 



r^OL. CHARLES E. BALCH. the son of 
^-^ Mason and Hannah (Holt) Balch, was born 
in I'rancestown March 17. il~!34. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools of his native village 
and at Francestown Academy, and at the age of 
I eighteen began his active business career as book- 
kee)ier m the mercantile establishment of Barton 
(Si Co., in Manchester. After remaining with this 
firm about two years he accepted a clerkship in the 
Manchester Savings bank, where his financial 
talents soon attracted the attention of the officers 
of the Manchester bank, and upon the reorganiza- 
tion of this institution as a national bank, in 1865, 
Col. lialch was chosen its cashier and held that 
j)()sili()n for nearly twenty years, resigning in Jan- 
uary, 1884. He was also trustee of the Manches- 
ter Savings bank, the largest in the State, and a 
member of its investment committee and treas- 
urer of liie institution until within a few 
months before iiis death. lie was treasurer of the 



Manchester (iaslight Company, a director and 
member of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance 
Company, and a trustee of many large estates. In 
all the various positions of responsibility and trust 
which Col. Balch was called upon to fill he dis- 
charged his duties with eminent ability and proved 
himself a most sagacious, careful, and safe financier. 
He was interested in a number of vessels, one of 
which, a four-masted schooner, of eight hundred 
and forty-three tons, named after him, was 
launched at Bath, Me., July 15, 1882. Col. Balch 
was thoroughly alive to the welfare of his adopted 
city and rejoiced in its i)r(jsperity, always respond- 
ing to personal calls looking to this end. 

He never sought political preferment, but was 
always a staunch supporter of the Repul)lican 
party. Dcc])ly interested in national, state, and 
municipal affairs, he had firm convictions in regard 
to them. His life was conspicuous for its purity 
and uprightness. Not a breatli of evil was ever 
raised against him, and his personal bearing to 
everybody was extremely cordial. For each of the 
vast number of persons who w'ere brought into 
business and social relations with him, he had 
always a pleasant greeting, impressing all with his 
affability and marked courtesy. The unliagging 
interest which characterized him enabled him to 
become one of the most successful men of Man- 
chester and to ac(|uire a iiandsome property. In 
1883 he completed one of the finest residences in 
the city, in a delightful location. His architectural 
taste, which was something unusual in a person 
not a professional, was evinced both in the plans 
for his own house, in the building of the Cilley 
block, in the fitting up of the interior of the Man- 
chester bank rooms, and as chairman of the build- 
ing committee of the Opera House. Having 
reached that point in his career where he could 
sensibly lessen his business cares, he was in a posi- 
tion to enjoy the fruits of an honorable and suc- 
cessful life. 

His death occurred Oct. 18, 1884. He was 
connected with but one secret organization, the 
Washington Lodge of Masons. His military title 
was received from two years service on the stall of 
Governor Head. Col. Balch was married in July, 
1867. to Miss Emeline R., daughter of Rev. 
Nahum Brooks, who survives him. 



I 



EMILE HYACINTHE TARDIVEL. 



EMILE H. TARDIVEL, one of the hriohtcst nalist and lecturer, and in 1S94 pul)lished " Le 

vcnma; French-American hnvyers in New Guide Canadien-lMancais de Manchester," whicli 

England, was born in Quebec, P. O., May 16, is a valuable directory and history combined of the 

18=59, 'lis parents lieing Jean-Marie and Adelaide French colonv of the city. 

(Donati) Tardivel. He was educated in the com- In 1S79 he took a trip abroad, the chief pur- 

mon schools of Quebec and at Laval University, pose of his European journey being- to visit the 



from which he grad- 
uated as A. B., June 
24, 1880. He de- 
voted himself to the 
study of law until 
1883, when he came 
to the States, being 
at St. Johnsbury, Vt., 
one year, then at 
Lewiston, Me., from 
1884 until 1888, re- 
moving thence to 
Worcester, Mass., 
where he resided un- 
til 1892. In the lat- 
ter year he took up 
his residence in Man- 
chester and has since 
matle this city his 
home. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 
the spring of 1894, 
and is an accom- 
plished speaker. He 
is a Democrat in poli- 
tics and a party man- 
ager of ability, having 
had charge of the 
French vote dur- 
ing the presidential 




home of his father 
in Brittany, France. 
Oct. 2, 1889, he 
married Minnie Ger- 
trude Kavanaugh of 
Lewiston, Me., and 
theii- home is glad- 
denctl by two chil- 
dren : Paul Henry, 
burn June 28, 1891, 
at Worcester, and 
Ilelene Jeanne, born 
Aug. II, 1893, at 
Manchester. 



A' 



r the centennial 
exercises held 
in Manchester, Wil- 
liam Stark was called 
on to speak, and 
among other things 
in relation to the 
professional men of 
the town he said : 
"Unfortunately Man- 
chester has had but 



grad- 



one college 



EMILE H. lARliIVEL. 



uate." He himself 
was that graduate. 

campaign of 1888 with head(iuarters in New York. The next speaker was his cousin, Hon. Joseph 
He is a member of the present legislature, to Kidder, and he began his remarks by saying: 
which he was elected by a large majority at the " I beg leave to differ from the speaker who 
election in 1894, and is an attendant upon St. has just preceded me as to its being a misfor- 
Mary's Catholic church, an active member of the tune that Manchester has yet produced but one 
Catholic Foresters and Ancient Order of United college graduate. I have always noticed that 
Workmen, and an honorary member of more than if a family had one fotil among its members they 
fifty French Canadian organizations throughout were sure to send him to college, and I con- 
the United States. In addition to his work as a gratulate old Derryfield that its families have thus 
lawyer, he has done excellent service as a jour- far been so exempt." 

184 



HON. PERSON C. CHENEY. 



HON. PERSON C. CHENEY was born in elected by popular vote as a member of the rail- 
Iloldcrncss (now Ashland), N. H., Feb. 25, road commission for three years, and in the fall of 
1S2S, the sixtli child of Moses and Abigail (Mor- 1866 he removed to Manchester to enter the waste 
rison) Cheney, his father being one of the pioneers and railroad supply business, at the same time 
in the manufacture of paper in New Hampshire, engaging in the manufacture of paper at Goffs- 
In 1835 the family removed to Pcterboro, where town, under the firm name of Cheney & Thorpe, 
the subject of this the business office 

sketch resided until 1 1 being located in Man- 

1866, receiving his Chester. He is now 

education in the com- at the head of the 

m o n s c h o o 1 s a n d w e 1 1 - k n o w n P. C. 

academy there, at the ^^Sf^'--^ Cheney Paper Com- 

Hancock Literary .^^^H^^:~— ' pany. Shortly after 

I and Scientific Insti- ^^^BP^'^ coming to Manches- 

tution, and at the ^^^H ter he became prom- 

Parsonsfield, Me., ^^^Hf .^itfP ^ ment m the Repub- 

' Academy. Follow- fiS^r ^^ Hcan party and was 

ing the business of 'jL^^^ -^*' elected mayor in 

his father, that of a ^flHHJk. .,■.■. wik '^7'' ^"^ °f the 

paper manufacturer, ^^^^HKII^"^ marked features of 

he became, in 1853, ■^^^^^Bh^ his successful admin- 

a member of the firm ^^^^^^Htt^^ istration being the 

of Cheney, Hadley ^^^^^ ^^^^3^ introduction of the 

tS: Gowing, subse- ^^^^^^^^^^Htty^'^^ fire-alarm telegraph 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^gr^- system. He declined 

In [853-54 he ^^^^^^^^^^^^BmSF was chosen governor 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^F 1^75 ^iid 1^76, 

politics, bcinga mem- ^^^^^^^^^^^^T t wresting the state 

her of the state Icgis- ' ^^^^^V . ^ f from the democratic 

lature from Peter- jiarty. In 1872 he 

boro. Entering the was elected a trustee 

I army in 1862, he was of Bates College, 

appointed quarter- and founded a 

master in the Thir- hon. person c. chenev. scholarship in that 

teentii Xiw I lamp- institution. At the 

shire X'olunteers, commanded bv Col. A. F. close of his gubernatorial service, Dartmouth 

Stevens. In Januarv, 1863, while at Falmouth, College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. 

l)efore iMedericksburg, he was taken so seriouslv Gov. Currier appointed him United States senator 

ill that his life was despaired of, and by command in the fall of 1886, to fill out part of Senator 

of the surgeons was sent on a strctclur to Wash- Austin F. Pike's unexpired term, and in 1888 he 

ington, where he was sick for three mcjnths. His was one of the delegates at large to the Republi- 

weak physical condition necessitating his resigna- can national convention. Chosen a member of 

tion, he manifested that patriotism which is one of the Republican national committee to succeed 

the ruling traits of his chaiaetcr bv sending a Hon. E. II. Rollins, he was re-elected in 1892, and 

siibstitiiti' to taki- his ])laee. In i S64 he was is still in that |;osition. In December, 1892, 
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I'rcsidcnt Harrison appointed him envoy extraor- 
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to Switzerland, 
at which post he remained until June 29, 1893. 
Mr. Cheney was one of the directors of the Peter- 
horo bank when he came to Manchester, and has 
been president of the Peoples Savings bank of 
Manchester since its organization. He is a mem- 
ber of Altemont Lodge, F. and A. M.; of Peter- 
boro Chapter No. 12, R. A. M. ; of Peterboro 
Lodge No. 15, I. O. O. F. ; of Louis Bell Post, 
G. A. R. ; of the Massachusetts Loyal Legion, and 
of the Army of the Potomac. Although he has 
always been a liberal contributor to many religious 
organizations, his membership is with the Unitarian 
society. May 22, 1850, Mr. Cheney married Miss 
S. Annie Moore, daughter of Samuel Morrison 
Moore of Bronson, Mich. She died Jan. 7, 1858, 
leaving no children, and June 29, 1859, he married 
Mrs. Sarah White Keith, daughter of Jonathan 
and Sarah (Goss) White of Lowell, Mass. One 
child has been born to them. Agnes Annie, now 
the wife of Charles H. Fish, agent of the Cocheco 
Manufacturing Company of Dover. Mrs. Cheney 
is probably better known than any other woman 
in New Hampshire, having for a long time been a 
prominent figure in the social events of state and 
nation. She possesses great dignity of bearing, 
has been a leader in Manchester society for years, 
and both her public and her private charities are 
innumerable, she having been for several years 
president of the Woman's Aid and Relief Society of 
Manchester, fler distinguished husband is every- 
where recognized as one of nature's noblemen, 
genial and social in his intercourse, a man of large 
charities and a loyal friend. 



HON. JAMES FRANKLIN BRIGGS was 
born in Burv, Lancashire, England, Oct. 23, 
1827, son of John and Nancy (Franklin) Briggs. 
When he was fourteen months old his parents 
took passage in an emigrant ship for America, and 
after a rough voyage of seven weeks landed in 
Boston, March 4, 1829. His father found em- 
ployment in a woolen factory at Antlover, Mass., 
and later at Saugus and Amesbury, until the fall 
of 1836, w^hen he, with two brothers, bought a 
small woolen factory in Holderness (now Ashland), 



N. H. At the age of nine James F. had begun 
work with his father, the family being in such cir- 
cumstances as to prevent his obtaining much 
schocjling. At fourteen he was able to attend an 
academy at Newbury, Vt., and afterwards at 
Tilton, N. H., working in the factory part of the 
time to pay his expenses. He pursued his studies 
in this way until 1848, when he arranged to study 
law with Hon. W. C. Thompson of Plymouth. 
But that year his father died, leaving eight chil- 
dren, six of whom were younger than James. He 
was then obliged to go to work again to assist his 
mother, but borrowed books and studied law during 
his spare time with Hon. Joseph Burrows of Ash- 
land. The next year the family removed to 
Fisherville (now Concord) and he succeeded in 
completing ids law studies witli Hon. Nehemiali 
Butler and was admitted to the bar in 185 i. He 
married, in 1850, Roxannah, daughter of Obadiah 
and Eliza Smith of New Hampton. They had 
three children : Frank O., educated at West Point 
and served four years in the armv, but now 
engaged in manufacturing in Trenton, N. J.; 
Marv F., wife of D. Dudlev Felton of Ahinchester, 
and Sarah F., married George E. Tewksbury, 
and died recentlv. Mr. Briggs practiced at Hills- 
borough Bridge until 1871. He was a member of 
the legislature from that town in 1856-57 and in 
1858, being a Democrat until the Civil War broke 
out, when he changed his views and ever after 
affiliated with the l-iejiublican part v. When the 
Eleventh Regiment was organized he was ap- 
pointed (|uartermaster on the staff of Col. Walter 
Harriman, and served through the battle of 
Fredericksburg, the military operations in Ken- 
tuck v, and in the Mississippi River expeditions 
which resulted in the capture of Vicksburg. 
After a vear's service he was prostrated by the 
malaria of southern swamps and was obliged to 
resign and return to Hillsborough. In 1871 he 
removed to Manchester and lormed a law jxutner- 
sliip with Henry H. Huse, which continued about 
tifteen vears. He served as city solicitor one year, 
and in 1874 was elected to the legislature from 
Ward 3. In 1876 he was elected state senator 
and the same year was a member of the constitu- 
tional convention. His ability as a servant of the 
[jcople attracted attention and admiration, and in 




fr^n> 




1877 he was nominated as a candidate for congress the New Ilampsiiire Medical society, 
and elected by a hirtje majority. In 1S7S and 1879 Lodge. A. F. and A. M., Mount I 
he was re-elected to the national housr. In the Arch Chapter, Adoniram Council. \V 
fort\-tifth consfress he served as a nniniicr of the 
committee on patents, in llu' fortv-si.xt h on na\al 
affairs, and in the forty-seventh he was chairman 
of the committee on war expenditures and a mem- 
ber of the committees on judiciary and reform in 
the ci\'il service. In congress he was a faithful 
and hard working member, tireless in his efforts 
to serve his constituents and always ready to do a 
favor for the veteran soldiers. He was a member 
of the constitutional convention of 1889. He is 
still engaged in law practice, having one of the 
largest legal patronages in the citv. Mr. Briggs is 
a Unitarian, a member of Hillsborough Lodge of 
Masons, of Wood's Chapter, and of Trinity 
Commandery. 



of Lafayette 
ioreb Royal 
ildey Lodge, 



/^LARENCE MONROE DODGE, M. D.. 

^-^ was born in New Boston, May 28, 1847. 
lie is the son of James Monroe and Lucy Jane 
(Philbrick) Dodge. His father died on his way to 
California in 1849. He attended the public 
schools of his native town and Goffstown. In 
order to give him better educational advantages, 
his mother removed to Mont \'ernon, where he 
attended the |)ul)lic schools and Appleton Academy 
(now McCallum Institute). They afterwaitl re- 
moved to Nashua, where, on Nov. 20, 1872, he 
married Estella G., daughter of Orin and Maria M. 
Rawson of that city. The issue of their union 
was one child, Clara Linda, born Dec. 6, 1874, 
died July i, 1879. Dr. Dodge began the study of 
medicine with Dr. Josiah (i. Cxraves of Nashua in 
1872. Graduating from the University of New 
\'ork in I'\l)ruary, ^877, he immediately began the 
practice of medicine at Amherst, remaining there 
for two years, and then removing to Manchester, 
where he has since remained, leading a very busy 
life except for about a year of much needed rest, 
spint in travel. Being o{ a retiring disposition, 
he has never sought Of even been willing to accept 
any public emoluments, although often invited. 
He takes a lively interest in the development and 
prosperity of the city. Dr. Dodge is a member of 




CLARE^'CE M. DODGE, .M. D. 



I. O. O. P., Wonalancct Encampment, Grand 
Canton Ridgely, Merrimack Lodge, K. of P., and 
Passaconaway Tribe of Red Men. He is a member 
of Grace Episcopal church. 



HTHE LONGI-:ST COURTSHIP on the rcc- 
' ords of Nutfield is that of Gabriel Barr and 
Rachel Wilson, who " kept company " forty years 
and linally died unmarried. Love laughs at lock- 
smiths, but not at religious difTerenccs. Gabriel 
belonged to Rev. William Davidson's parish, and 
his sweetheart to Rev. Mr. McGregor's, and they 
could not agree which of the two good Presby- 
terian churches they should attend, the feud 
between the two parishes being extremely bitter. 
The Scotch blood that ran in the veins of the 
lovers made it impossible for either to yield, and 
hence the long courtship, ended only by death. 



FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, MANCHESTER. 



the Amoskeag branch of the Goffstown church, 
authorizinaf us to enCTacje our minister and reward 



ON tiie first pajje of the old church records, Daniel Gooden first deacon. Jan. 4, 1837, with 
under date of July 26, 1S35, is the following: the godspeed of the mother church, they became 
"The Baptist church in Goffstown voted this day an independent body and were publicly recognized 
to acknowledge us whose names are here enrolled, by a council of neighboring churches. The place 

of meeting was soon after changed to the east side 
of the river, and in 1840 a commodious brick 
edifice was erected on the corner of Manchester 
and Chestnut streets. At a meeting held Sept. 22, 
1840, it was voted " that this church shall hereafter 
be known as the First Baptist church in Man- 
chester." July 8, 1870, the church edifice was 
l)urned. Steps were at once taken to rebuild, 
resulting in the erection of the present edifice on 
the corner of Union and Concord streets, costing 
about $80,000, which was dedicated April 30, 1873. 
In October, 1845, letters were granted to thirty- 
five persons to form the Merrimack-Street Baptist 
church of Manchester. Jan 25, 1855, a society 
was organized in connection with the church to 
conduct its financial interests, and Otis Barton 
was chosen first president; Joseph B. Clark, clerk ; 
Ebenezer Clark, treasurer; Joseph E. Bennett, 
Orisen Hardy, George A. Barnes, A. D. Burgess, 
Peter S. Brown, C. W. Baldwin, Charles Brown, 
directors. Rev. John Peacock served the church 
only ten nmnths after it became an independent 
organization. lie was succeeded by Rev. Ephraim 
Bailey, who ministered three years and five months. 
Rev. John Upham followed, remaining one year. 
Rev. Benjamin Brierly was pastor two years and 
six months. Rev. Thomas O. Lincoln remained 
four years ; Rev. Isaac Sawver, three years and 
seven months ; Rev. B. F. Hedden, two years ; 
Rev. George Pierce, eight years and six months ; 
Rev. N. C. Mallory, four years and seven months ; 
Rev. A. C. Graves, D. D., five years and nine 
months; Rev. William H. Leavett, five years; 
Rev. C. H. Kimball, three years and nine months. 
The present pastor, Rev. W. C. McAllester, D. D., 
began his labors June 19, 1S87. The church has 
sent out five young men into the ministry and 




IlkSr BAPTIST CHURCH, MANCHtbltk. 



him, to receive members and dismiss them, and 
to enjoy the communion, to wit: Elder John 
Peacock, Daniel Gooden, Mary R. Peacock, John 

Stevens, Mrs. Stevens, Ilopy Tewkshury, Betsv several persons to engage in home and foreign 

Tewksbury, Elizabeth Mclntyrc, Zilpah Guild, missionary work. In February, 1887, sixty-eight 

Abigail Rider," — ten in all. For a year and a half persons were granted letters to form the Taber- 

services were held in various places, often in private nacle Baptist church of the city, and in October, 

houses, Rev. John Peacock serving as pastor and 1891, with the hearty consent of the mother 

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church, fiftv-sevcii persons, fruits of a Swedish 
mission which had worshipped in the vestries for 
three years, were dismissed to form the First 
Swedish church in Manchester, the first church of 
this nationality in New Hampshire. The present 
church membership is 448. The church is entirely 
free from debt, has a tlourishinp; Sunday school 
under the superintendency of J. Trask Plumer, is 
interested in many missionary enterprises, and 
ranks as a leading- church in the Baptist denom- 
ination in New England. 

Rey. William C. McAllester, D. D., pastor of 
the First Baptist church, was born in Essex 
county, N. Y., June 19. 1849, son of Edwin and 
Louisa B. McAllester of Keeseyille, N. Y. His 
ancestors are traced hack to Alister Whor, Lord 
of the Isles and Kintyre in 1284, who opposed the 
claim of Robert Bruce to the Scottish throne and 
who died a prisoner in the castle of Dundonald. 
On the overthrow of that dynasty in the reign of 
James IV. the Macallisters became an independent 
clan. Alexander Macallister of Loup was a loyal 
subject of King James and served in the royal 
army in Ireland against William of Orange. The 
McAllisters who settled in America came from 
Argylshire, Scotland, and three families of that 
name settled in New Hampshire. Robert Mc- 
Allister removed from New Boston to Antrim 
in 1793, and was a carpenter, school teacher, and 
farmer. He died in Newbury, \'t..in 1862. Jona- 
than McAllister married Charity Chatman of 
Haverhill, and died in W^illsborough, N. ^'.. in 
1862. His son was Edwin, father of Rev. W. C. 
McAllester, who is also a lineal descendant of 
Col. William Prescott of Bunker Hill fame. He 
studied at Madison University (now Colgate) at 
Hamilton, N. \'., in the class of '73, and received 
the honorary degree of M. A. in 1883 from that 
institution. He settled as pastor of a Baptist 
church in Plattsburgh, N. Y., in 1878 and remained 
till 1887. when he accepted a call from the First 
Baptist church of Manchester. While pastor at 
Moriah, N. Y., his first settlement, he built a new 
church; at Plattsburgh he was very successful in 
building a new church edifice and also raised funds 
to buy a parsonage for the society. Since coming 
to Manchester he has succeeded in paying otT a 
debt, mortgage and tloating, of over $8,000 and 



has added ncarK 250 members to the church. He 
has been settled longer with the First church in 
Manchester than anv pastor except one. No 
sensational features are introduced into Dr. Mc- 
AUester's pulpit, so often the case with so-called 
popular clergymen of the day. His sermons show 
careful study, are delivered in a scholarly and 
dignified, yet jileasing style, and reflect the best 
thoughts of a studious and thoroughly Chris- 
tian mind. His language is incisive, his points 
clearly made, and his sermons interesting. His 
church, since he became pastor, has grown to be 




RKV. W. C. MCALLESTER. I). D. 

one of the largest and most inlluential in the state. 
The degree of D. D. was bestowed on him in 
1895 by Olivet College, Mich. He married Nov. 
20, 1873, Angela M. Brownson of Elizabethtown, 
N. ^'. They have three children : Lillian A. 
aged twenty, student at Vassar College, class of 
1896; Ralph VV., aged seventeen, just entering 
Harvard College, and Grace E., aged nine. Dr. 
McAllester is a forceful writer and has been for 
twenty years a valued correspondent of the Watch- 
man of Boston, and E.xaminer and Independent 
of New York, and an occasional writer for a large 




number of periodicals. He is a member of the 
Delta Kappa Epsilon collea;e fraternity. A 
hitihly prized adornment of the walls of his library 
is a coat-of-arms of the original MacAlister family 
of Scotland. It is safe to say that no cleroyman 
was ever settled in Manchester who was more 
hifjhlv esteemed as a preacher, citizen, or neiijhbor 
than Rev. W. C. McAllester. 



WILLIAM H. ELLIOTT, son of John Wil- 
liams and Rebecca (Hartshorn) Elliott, 
was born in Londonderry Sept. 5, 182 1, both his 
parents being natives of New Hampshire. Hav- 
ing received his education in the public schools, 
he learned the watch business at an earlv a<re, and 




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made any pretence to large glass windows, the 
panes, :;2 bv 46 inches, being regarded as un- 
usually hne. Ther.e was no building at all on the 
west side of the street. Mr. Elliott raised his first 
sign in September, 1840, and his name has been 
continuously up on Elm street for more than tifty- 
five vears. His portrait accompanying this sketch 
was taken in his seventv-fifth vear, and he is still 
hale and hearty. For manv vears, in addition to 
his business as jeweler and optician, he has been 
engaged in the sale of pianos, organs and musical 
goods, in which he has built up an extensive trade. 
Mr. Elliott was married in 1842 to Miss Serena F. 
Cillev of Hopkinton, and their golden wedding 
was celebrated in 1892. Their union has been 
blessed bv eight children, three of whom now sur- 
vive: Dr. George H. Elliott of New \'ork city; 
Rev. Charles F. Elliott, a Unitarian clergyman of 
Chicago, and Ida F., married to Arthur B. Smith 
of Haverhill, Mass. There are seven grandchil- 
dren and one great-grandchild. In 1845 Mr. 
Elliott built the house at the corner of Concord 
and Walnut streets, at that time the finest private 
residence in the village, and (juite modern even 
now. He occupied this house for twenty years, 
and in 1870 he built a residence at the corner of 
Myrtle and Maple streets, which at the time of its 
erection was also the finest in the citv, and the 
first in which plate glass windows were used. He 
also built the twentv-tenement block at the corner 
of Pearl and Chestnut streets. Mr. Elliott has 
never had political aspirations. He attended the 
Universalist church for more than twentv years, 
and was for a long time president of the societ\' 
and superintendent of the Sunday school. He is 
a member of Washington Lodge, of Mount Horeb 
Chapter, Roval iVrch Masons, and of Trinitv Com- 
mandcr\'. Knights 'l\'mplar. 



Wll.I.IAM H. KI.I.IOI T. 



soon became very proficient and skilful. Coming HPHE SPECTACULAR in religion was not 

to Manchester in 1840, he opened a store on the ^ wholly neglected by those simple-minded old 

premises which he now occupies, and in which he Scotch settlers of Nutfield. In 1741 the West 

personally manages the largest business of the Parish voted, "that the selectmen raise as much 

kind in the state. The building in which Mr. money as shall be sufficient to build a pulpit 

Elliott began his business career was at the time equivalent to Dunstable (now Nashua) pulpit." 

the best on the street, and the only one which And they raised about $500. 



COL. ARTHUR EASTMAN CLARKE. 

COL. ARTHUR EASTMAN CLARKE, the board of trade, and a director of the Northern 
son of John B. and Susan (Moulton) Clarke, Telegraph Company. From his school days Col. 
was l)orn in Manchester May 13, 1854. Graduat- Clarke has been an enthusiastic student of elocu- 
ing from Dartmouth in 1S75, he entered the tion, and has attained conspicuous distinction in 
Mirrcjr office in the fall of that year to familiarize reading and reciting, carrving off high honors at 
himself with all branches of ne\vs})aper work. Phillips Academy and at Dartmouth College. 
After mastering the details of the composing and He has gratuitously drilled a number of ])upils of 
press rooms he acquired further experience in the the Manchester public schools who have won first 
job department and in reading proof. He then prizes in the annual speaking contests. He gives 
became city editor of the Mirror, and for a number prizes yearly for excellence in elocution to the 
of years did all the local work alone, subsequently schools of Hooksett, and is often invited to judge 
with an assistant. Later he assumed the duties of prize speaking contests at educational institutions, 
general, state news, and review editor, remaining Ever since becoming associated with the Mirror 
in this position several years, and then taking he has had charge of its dramatic and musical 
charge of the agricultural department and other departments, and enjoys a wide personal acquaint- 
features of the Mirror and Farrricr, assisting at the ance with noted actors and actresses. He has 
same time in the editorial, reportorial, and business written some most interesting and valuable inter- 
departments of the Daily Mirror. For four years views with many distinguished players which have 
he was the legislative reporter of the paper at been extensively copied by the press of the country. 
Concord, and for one year he served as telegraph Denman Thompson received from Col. Clarke's 
editor. In these various capacities he acquired an pen the first noticeably long, analvtical, and com- 
all-round experience such as few newspaper men plimentary criticism of his work that was ever 
]iossess, and it has stood him in good stead, tor vouchsafed to this eminent actor. It was given 
u]ion liis father's death he became the manager of when Mr. Thompson was an obscure member of 
lioth ])apers and of the job printing and book- a varietv companv. 

binding business connected with the establishment, Mr. Clarke has alwa\s bien fond of atidetic 

and has since conducted most successfully the sports, and has won distinction in man\- lines. He 

extensive concerns of the oiiice. besides doing organized and captaimd a picked team of ball 

almost dail\- work with his pen for both ]iapers. players in Manchester that defeated the best club 

Mr. Clarke has inhiriled his father's energy, great in the State for a prize of $100. The longest hit 

capacity for work, and executive ability. He has made on the old West Manchester baseball 

been a member of the Manelu'Ster common eoun- grounds was madi' 1)\- Mr. Clarke, the ball going 

cil ; has represented Ward 3 in the legislature ; was over the left field fence. In a game at the North 

adjutant of the Fust Regiment, N. H. N. G., for a End fair grounds he made three home runs. He 

number of \ears ; was agricultural statistician for is one of the finest skaters, both roller and ice. in 

New Hampshire during Garfuld's administration ; New Hampshire. With a shot gun, rille, and 

was colonel on (io\. Tuttle's staff; is president of revolver he is (|uite an expert, and holds a record 

the New Hampshire Press Association and the New of thirtv-eight clav pigeons broken out of fortv in 

llam])shir(.' member (jf the executive committee of the davs of the Manchester Shooting CMub, a score 

the National i^ress Association: is a member of that was not e(|ualled bv Manchester marksmen. 

the Hoslon Press Club, of the AIgoiii|Liiii Club lie held the billiard ehampioiiship of Dartmouth 

(IJostoii), of the Manchester Press Club,of the Coon College, and upon his return to Manchester in 

Club, of the Calumet Club of Manchester, and of 1875 defeated the best players in the citv, winning 

the AmoskeagGrange. He is Past Exalted Rulerof substantial prizes. He is a devotee of hunting and 

the Manchester Lodge of Elks, ex-president of the fishing, has pursued manv phases of the S|)ort with 

Derryfield Club, a member of the Manchester great success, and no angler in Manchester 

157 




lias probably taken so many large trout as he has 
during- the past ten 3'ears. He owns four hunting 
dogs, in the company of wiiich in fall and winter 
he maintains the superb health and robustness that 
have always characterized him. 

Col. Clarke conducts the Mirror farm, located 
just outside the city limits, and here experiments 
in many directions are tried under his supervision. 
The larofest strawberries ever raised in Manchester 
have been grown at the Mirror farm, and on one 
field there in the season of 1895 over four and one 
half tons of hay were cut to the acre on the first crop. 

The whole management of the Mirror office 
and its immense responsibilities rest upon him, and 
his personal attention covers every detail. He 
disposes of work with great ease and rapidity, and 
no obstacle ever daunts him. Col. Clarke has 




travelled abroad extensively, and has embodied his 
i mpressions of foreign lands in a most interesting 
book entitled: "European Travels." Jan. 25, 
I 893, he was married to Mrs. Jacob G. Cilley of 
Cambridge, Mass. 

Mr. Clarke is a member of the Franklin- 
Street Society (Congregational), and is rarely 
absent from the Sunday morning service. He 
was chairman of the committee that selected 
the present pastor. Rev. B. W. Lockhart. He 
is a member of the committee that has charge 
of the choir singing, and is one of the gentle- 
men who have so successfully managed the ves- 
per services at this church, which have proved 
so popular. He liberally supports the work of 
the church. He is a member of the Franklin- 
Street Young Men's Association. 




COL. ARl'HUR E, CLARKE S RESIDENCE. 



HON. ALPHEUS GAY. 



LION. ALPHEUS GA\', son of Alpheus and president of the Citizens' Buildina; and Loan 

* ^ Susannah (Scobey) Gay, was born in Fran- Association and vice president of the Bank of 

cestown May 14, 1819. his father being a native of New Ent^hind, and has held other similar positions 

Dedham, Mass. Having acquired an education in of responsibility. Recently he was a member of 

the district schools and at the Francestown acad- the building committee of the new state normal 

emy, at the age of fifteen he began working at the school at Plymouth. Mr. Gay is past master of 



carpenter's trade 
with his father. 
Three years later he 
taught school in 
New Boston, and 
followed teaching in 
that place and at 
Francestown for sev- 
eral winters. Com- 
ing to Manchester 
in 1S41, he worked 
at the carpenter's 
trade until 1850, 
when he became a 
contractor and 
builder. He has 
built many of the 
best and largest busi- 
ness blocks, public 
b u i 1 d i n g s a n d 
ehurciies in the city, 
inckKling the eitv 
lil)rar\', court house, 
jail, industrial school, 
the High, .Ash, Lin- 
coln, and b'ranklin- 
street schoolhouses, 
St. Joseph's cathe- 
dral, Grace church, 
and also many pri- 
vate residences. In 1886 he was appointed Lawyers were evidentlv making too much money 
superintendent of the construction of the govern- in Nutlield as long ago as 1778, for the follow- 
ment building, which was completed under his ing article is to be found in the town warrant for 
care and direction. Mr. Gay has been a life-long that year: "To see if the town will instruct 
Democrat, and has the high honor of being one of their representatives to use their intluence that 
the few Democratic mayors of the citv, having there be a revision of the table of fees. It ap- 
t)een elected t(j that position in 1875. He has pears to us that the attornies' fees should be cut 
been a member of the board of water commission- down at least one-half: tliey would not then be so 
ers since its organization in 1871, and for mam fomi of business, ami ]>e()])le would tind lime to 
veais has been president oi the board. \\v is also breathe.' 

26; 




HON. ALPHEUS GAY. 



Lafayette lodge, A. 
F. and A.M., a mem- 
ber of Trinity com- 
mandery, K. T., and 
of the Mystic Shrine. 
He attends the Uni- 
tarian church, and is 
a ni ember of the 
Granite State club. 
Nov. 25, 1845, Mr. 
Gay married Miss 
Theda G. Fisher, 
daughter of Richard 
and Pauline (Camp- 
bell) Fisher of Fran- 
cestown, who died 
Aug. 1 7, 1885. They 
iiad four children, 
two ot whom sur- 
vive: Anna M., who 
resides with her 
father, and b'rank A., 
of the engineering 
firm of Bartlett & 
Gay, Manchester. 



MA K 1 X G tot) 
much money. — 



JOHN C. RAY. 



JOHN C. RA\', son of Aaron and Nancy Ray, Normal School at Plynioutli, and has always taken 
was horn in Hopkinton sixty-nine years ago, a deep interest in educational affairs. In 1893 
his parents removing a few years later to Dunbar- Mr. Ray was nominated hy acclamation for coun- 
ton, where he grew to manhood and became one cillor by the second district Republican convcn- 
of the leading citizens of that town. At the age tion, and was elected by a large majority. His 
of twenty-one he was elected to represent the town popularity extends far beyond the limits of the 

political party with 
which he is identified, 
and he is held in high 
estimation by all his 
fellow citizens. In 
1857 Mr. Ray was 
married to Miss S. A. 
Humphreys, and two 
children have been 
added to the family. 



in the state legisla- 
ture, and was re- 
elected for the two 
following t e r m s. 
With one exception 
he was the youngest 
member of the house 
when he first took 
his seat, but lie 
speedily liecamc one 
of the most influen- 
tial members of that 
body. He was sub- 
sequently chairman 
of the board of select- 
men and superinten- 
dent of schools in 
Uunbarton. July 2, 
1874, he bee a m e 
superintenilent of the 
State Industrial 
School in Manches- 
ter, and has filled the 
position so accept- 
ably that year by year 
he has been unani- 
mously re-elected, 
notwithstanding his 
oft repeated desire to 
retire from the posi- 
tion. Mr. Ray's dealings with the wayward youth i quarter pepper, 2s.; Cinnamon, is. 6d. ; Nutmeg, 
entrusted to his care have been characterized by is. 6d.; Wine 2 gallons, £\ 4s.; i pound tea, 12s.; 
great kindness united with unllinching firmness, 12 pound shugar, 12s.; 2 quarts molasses, 2s. 6d. ; 
while his management of the farm and the Indus- Brandy, 5s. 4d. ; i6| pounds butter, £1 los. ; jour- 
tries of the school has been successful in the nev to Newbury, £1 is. ; 2 bushels and a half of 
highest degree. Under his direction the school wlieat, £i los. ; Souse, Syder, Bread, salt, pork, 
has taken rank in the forefnuit of similar institu- trouble of house and Woman's labor, /,'i i6s." 
tions in this country. In 1881 -82 he was again a With all that allspice, pepper, cinnamon, and nut- 
member of the legislature, representing Ward 2. meg, and with the Inandy, rum, cider, and wine, that 
Many years ago he was one of the trustees of the ordination must have been both spicy and spirited. 

264 




JOHN C. RAV. 



IT cost _^i2 IS. lod., 
or more than $60, 
to ordain Rev. Wil- 
liam Morrison, I'eb. 
12, I 7S3, and set him 
apart "to the work 
of the gospel minis- 
try, to take charge 
of the second parish 
in Londonderry." 
This is the itemized 
bill of expenses, as 
found in an old ac- 
count book : " Four 
gallen of Rum, £1 
1 6s. ; half a pound of 
allspice, 5 s.; 19 
pounds Chise, 19s.; 
3 pounds raisons, 4s. ; 



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